Saturday, June 5, 2010

Renowned Wildlife Ecologist Appeals to BLM for Wild Horse Release « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Renowned Wildlife Ecologist Appeals to BLM for Wild Horse Release « Straight from the Horse's Heart

I am concerned about the fate of Calico complex wild horses now in captivity north of Fallon as well as those that remain living in the wild in the five HMA’s from which the former where captured. I recently flew over southern and central portions of Black Rock East, Black Rock West, Calico Mountain, and Granite Range HMA’s in a light plane. In this very open area I was only able to observe only 31 wild horses in several bands, while during this same flight I observed 350 cattle. There was a reasonable spring green-up of the landscape and the open treeless character of the terrain permitted a high degree of horse detection.

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