The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to gather wild horses from various locations across Nevada beginning next month.

In an effort to manage populations on the range using population growth suppression, BLM will gather approximately 1,000 wild horses in the Pine Nut Mountain, Fish Creek, and Little Fish Lake herd management areas in the Carson City and Battle Mountain Districts and treat roughly 225 to 250 mares with a fertility control vaccine and release them back to the range. Approximately 460 excess wild horses will be removed to reduce the impacts to the public lands.

Additional gathers are scheduled on the Humboldt herd area (HA) in the Winnemucca District and the Wood Hills HA on the Elko District to remove wild horses from checkerboard land ownership areas not identified for wild horse management.

A mixture of helicopter and bait trapping will be used for these operations