BLM Launches Scoping on Adobe Town Wild Horse Removal

The BLM could have the chance to conduct a research project by placing radio collars on mares returned to the range.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming’s Rawlins Field Office has proposed to gather and remove wild horses from the Adobe Town herd management area (HMA). In conjunction with the University of Wyoming, the BLM could have the opportunity to conduct a research project by placing radio collars on approximately 15 to 40 mares returned to the HMA.

The radio collar research would allow BLM to learn about habitat selection, seasonal use and movement between habitats, and migration patterns with and outside of the HMA. Prior to collaring any wild horses, an animal care and use protocol for collaring would be submitted to the University of Wyoming Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for review by a panel of veterinarians and animal welfare officials.

The removal of wild horses from the Adobe Town portions of the HMAs will be conducted under Section 3 of the Wild and Free Roaming Wild Horse and Burros Act of 1971, 16 U.S.C. §1333, Regulation 43 CFR 4720.1, and the consent decree entered by the U.S. District Court on April 3, 2013, in Rock Springs Grazing Association v. Salazar, Civ. No. 11-263-NDF (D. Wyo.) (2013 Consent Decree).

Consistent with the 2013 Consent Decree, the BLM conducted population surveys in April, 2015. The census data from this survey estimated that there are approximately 858 wild horses within the Adobe Town HMA, which exceeds the appropriate management level of 610 to 800 wild horses

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