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BLM
Suspending Clan Alpine Wild Horse Gather
Scheduled
for February
Carson City
,
Nev.
- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carson City District, is suspending
the Clan Alpine Herd Management Area (HMA) wild horse gather that was
scheduled to start approximately February 1, 2011. The Clan Alpine Herd
Management Area (HMA) is located 60 miles east of
Fallon
,
Nevada
.
"An aerial census conducted
in late December of the wild horses in the Clan Alpines shows that the
population is low enough that gathering horses in that area to treat the
mares with a fertility control vaccine is not warranted at this
time," said Terri Knutson, BLM-Stillwater Field Office Manager.
"We will continue to monitor that wild horse herd to ensure
their population stays in balance with the other natural resources in the
Clan Alpine Mountains."
Wild horse gathers, birth
control treatments and limited removals are methods intended to reduce or
maintain the herd population sizes to within the appropriate management
levels necessary to achieve a thriving natural ecological balance on the
public lands.
For more information, contact Mark Struble, BLM Carson City
District Public Affairs Officer, at (775) 885-6107 or mark_struble@blm.gov.
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