However, the videos must not be used to imply BLM endorsement of a product, service, organization or individual without permission from the BLM. Noyes and others believe developing a permanent sterilization method for mares would help, but only after the numbers of horses on the range have been reduced all the way to appropriate management levels, and BLM is nowhere close. Wild horse and burro populations have skyrocketed and are now more than triple the size that our public landscapes can sustain. Download the FY2018 Wild Horse and Burro Program Highlights fact sheet. Roundups like the one at Triple B help reduce the population momentarily, but nothing ever gets done to solve the overall problem of growing populations on a rangeland that cannot sustain them, he said. The result is that there are too many horses on too little range and many horses are facing starvation. Nationwide population estimates*: 81,951Total removed: 11,472Total placed into private care: 4,609 Total trained: 1,479Total fertility control treatments: 702Total expenditures: $81.226 million. The total capacity of all BLM off-range holding facilities is 58,751 animals. The population level of wild horses and burros considered sustainable for the ecological health of federal rangelands is 26,600. At a glance. The result is that there are too many horses on too little range and many horses are facing starvation. There are about 90,000 wild horses and burros on the range, though the BLM estimates the range can adequately support less than 27,000. Wild horses and burros that exceed AML (which is 26,770) are to be removed from the range, in accordance with the 1971 law, as amended. Big Sand Spring Valley is expansive, rimmed on either side by 4,000-foot peaks. Obviously, this is not a sustainable solution. Barry Perryman, a rangeland ecologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a member of BLM's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, warned the board at a July hearing of an "ecological crisis" that, if not fixed, will lead to "permanent degradation" of rangelands. When BLM officials evaluate the health of a herd management area like the 855,000-acre Pancake area, they're looking at water sources and forage. And eventually, that's going to take hold to where nothing can survive out there. BLM put up a metal fence around the spring, which is now covered with a thick blanket of vegetation, to keep the horses from pawing and digging at it in a desperate effort to get water, Boyce explains. Noyes is responsible for all the wild horses in the Ely District, where there are roughly 13,000 animals; the sustainable number for the district is roughly 1,600. The enormous size of the task troubles Noyes. Scott Streater/E&E News. That's far and away more than BLM's $1.3 billion fiscal 2019 budget. Horses drink from a small water source in the Jackson Mountains herd management area in Nevada. More complete information, including historical figures, can be found as part of annual Public Lands Statistics reported by the BLM. All video files in this archive are "public domain" images. Managing equine populations poses several challenges, including Affording care for them Finding new homes for unwanted equines "I think if they're going to take on this challenge, that's something that they're going to have to commit to; we can't commit Congress to it," Hammond said. Credit video to the Bureau of Land Management. To promote healthy conditions on the range, the BLM determines what it calls the Appropriate Management Level (AML), which is the number of wild horses and burros that can thrive in balance with other public land resources and uses. The horses have bent and twisted the fence, a few years old, and they have started to trample the spring itself. Photo credit: Scott Streater/E&E News, A group of wild horses in the Big Sand Spring Valley running toward the Moody Spring, one of the few water sources for miles in the Pancake Herd Management Area. These off-range horses and burros are fed and cared for in either off-range corrals or pastures at a cost of nearly $50 million a year. Today, the BLM manages wild horses in subsets of these Herd Areas, known as Herd Management Areas (HMAs), that comprise 31.6 million acres. (BLM's estimated sustainable level for the area is 493 animals.). There are more than 47,000 wild horses and burros across some 14 million acres of BLM managed herd areas in the Silver State — more than half the 88,000 wild horses and burros on federally managed lands in the West. Most recent nationwide wild horse and burro population estimate, as of March 1, 2020: 95,114 animals, Nationwide population estimates:* 95,114Download the full population estimate data set, Download the FY2019 Wild Horse and Burro Program Highlights fact sheet, Nationwide population estimates*: 88,090Total removed: 7,276Total placed into private care: 7,104Total trained: 1,451Total expenditures: $85.549 million.
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