The BLM estimates that there are more than 400 horses residing in the Fifteenmile HMA. | Photo: Thinkstock

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming’s Worland Field Office is requesting public input as it proposes to gather excess wild horses in the Fifteenmile Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) and update the HMA’s management plan.

The Fifteenmile HMA is located approximately 30 miles northwest of Worland in Washakie, Big Horn, and Park counties, Wyoming. The BLM has set the HMA’s appropriate management level (AML)—the point at which the wild horse population is consistent with the land’s capacity to support it and other mandated uses of those lands—at 70 to 160 mature horses. The BLM estimates that there are more than 400 horses residing in the HMA. A date for the proposed gather has not yet been determined.

In addition, the agency needs public input on an update to the Fifteenmile HMA Plan, which will guide future management of the HMA and the wild horses within it for the next several years. To inform public input, a management evaluation of the HMA and rangeland health assessment are available at go.usa.gov/xQrRP