Federal officials want to remove 750 wild horses from southwestern Utah. What’s at stake?

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Federal officials want to remove 750 wild horses from southwestern Utah. What’s at stake?
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“We are seeing extremely dry conditions on the range right now, after several years of drought, which is compounded by a large number of excess wild horses.”

the BLM for not removing enough wild horses, since they compete with their livestock for resources.

Many of these AMLs are decades old, but the BLM is required to conduct a rigorous land-use management plan to change them, which takes time and resources. On top of that, tumultuous administrative turnover in Washington, D.C., means that in recent years, the BLM hasn’t had a consistent plan for dealing with wild horses.What’s next for the Bible Springs herd?

The Cedar City field office is expected to render a decision in the coming weeks. If approved, this will be the first time since 2018 that the BLM has gathered horses from the Bible Springs Complex, Reid said.included in the BLM’s proposed action involves administering birth control vaccines to the animals; PZP or GonaCon-Equine are two common vaccines that the agency uses.

Some fertility control treatments can be administered from a distance, but most animals need to be rounded up for treatment, according to the BLM. The goal of these population suppression techniques is to no longer have to conduct gathers and removals.the BLM must consider a wide range of issues, including how wild horse removal would impact livestock grazing, rangeland health, soil, wetlands, riparian resources, wildlife and the wild horses themselves.

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