Public Invited to Tour Fallon Wild Horse Corral
Edited Press Release
May 3, 2018
The BLM will host a public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral, in Fallon, Nevada, on May 11.
The BLM will host a public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral, in Fallon, Nevada, on May 11.
The BLM has proposed offering an incentive of up to $1,000 to anyone willing to adopt a wild horse or burro currently residing the agency’s holding corrals.
The state of Nevada will reassess its options for managing the Virginia Range horses after an attempt to solicit a new private owner failed.
The BLM has set the complex’s appropriate management level at 310 to 518 wild horses. The current population is estimated to be nearly 1,300 wild horses.
The BLM seeking nominations to represent the following categories of interest: public interest, wild horse and burro advocacy, and veterinary medicine.
The National Park Service’s population census of the wild horses on Assateague Island revealed 82 horses, and a new foal, bringing the herd total to 83.
The agency is proposing to gather wild horses in the Fifteenmile Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA), in Wyoming, and update the HMA’s management plan.
Also, the FEI Tribunal issued its final decision in a case against an Italian jumper whose horse tested positive for stanozolol and ketoprofen.
The BLM will offer 10 professionally gentled, off-the-range Mustangs in hopes that more people will purchase them if they’ve already started training.
The BLM is requesting data, photos, or other information pertaining to wild horse condition, vegetation, utilization levels, and riparian condition in the Flanigan Herd Management Area.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favor of the FEI’s policy of two-month equine provisional suspensions in banned substance cases.
The Humane Society of the United States claims the USDA is preventing the public from accessing Horse Protection Act violation records on the agency’s website.
The BLM opted to delay when one of its members threatened to sue the agency because it did not provide 30 days’ public notice of the meeting.
Horses have moved down to lower elevations and many mares will be foaling through June, officials say.
The board will discuss the challenge of wild horse and burro management on public lands and how a growing population is impacting the environment.
Jeffrey Tretter alleges that the gelding Tag Up and Go received a banned performance-enhancing substance which caused him to win unexpectedly.
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