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The wild horses on the western side of the "project area" noted in the underlying Records of Decision (ROD), that includes the 361 page Environmental Assessment (EA), were in spectacular shape.
The southernmost trap locations showed healthy horses on moderate rangeland. The horses at the northern trap location showed extremely healthy horses on a very healthy range. The northern trap on the west side was in the area of the Bald Mountain mine and has had no domestic livestock use. Even the biocrust (an extremely wonderful thing many people are unaware of) showed very little physical disturbance. Biocrust is very vulnerable to damage.
The area to the south has impending livestock turnout and the area to the north had mining vehicles hitting wild horses because they wont slow down (we spoke to miners and they were not shy about discussing travel to and from work). When mines go in or expand the BLM will tell you that appropriate mitigation of impacts to vehicle traffic is to "educate" the mine to "slow down" and watch for wild horses. It doesn't work.
Why was this area prioritized over all others including the other side of this project area where a subset population really demonstrated declining condition?
In addition to the multiple deficits in handling practices during operations , this is an important discussion that is being included in our request for a review of the "Triple B, 2018" roundup
Wild Horse Education has submitted a request to oversight agencies for a complete review.
In 2011 we litigated against conduct, a review was done, we won the first case in history against abuse. That operation will be discussed later in this issue.