Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meetings originally scheduled for March are being postponed, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today. The meetings, to be held March 19-20 at the Georgetown Suites, Harbor Room, 1000 29th St., NW, Washington, DC, will be held at a later date. Full details, including the meeting location, will be announced later. The BLM is postponing the meetings because of scheduling conflicts.

The BLM re-established the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board in 1998 to provide input and guidance on the management of wild horse and burro herds on the Western rangeland. Under the 1971 Wild and Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, the BLM manages nearly 46,000 wild horses and burros that roam public lands in the West. The law mandates the protection, management, and control of wild horses and burros in a manner that ensures a healthy, viable population of free-roaming herds within the limits of available public land resources. The BLM gathers excess animals and places them in good homes. After one year, qualified adopters may acquire title to the animals. The BLM manages animals in compliance with the Wild Free-roaming Horse and Burro Act, as amended.

The BLM, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, manages more land—261 million surface acres—than any other Federal agency. Most of the country's BLM-managed public land is located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. These lands, once remote, now provide the growing communities of the West with open space that gives the region much of its character. The Bureau, which has a budget of $1.8 billion and a workforce of 10,000 employees, also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the Nation. The BLM's "multiple use" mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The BLM accomplishes this by managing for such resources as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, and energy and mineral development that helps meet the nation's energy needs, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on the public lands.

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