The BLM said it plans to gather and remove approximately 300 wild horses because there is not enough water to support the number of horses in the area. | Photo: iStock

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada’s Ely District Caliente Field Office will begin an emergency wild horse gather on or about Sept. 13 within and outside the northern portion of the Eagle Herd Management Area (HMA), in Lincoln County, as there is not enough water to support the number of horses in the area.

The BLM plans to gather and remove approximately 300 excess wild horses using the helicopter method. Sun J Livestock, Inc. will conduct the gather.

The BLM said the gather is necessary to prevent undue or unnecessary public land degradation associated with excess wild horses and to restore a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationship on public lands, consistent with the provisions of Section 1333(b) of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act