The Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will reschedule its June 24-25 meeting, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today. The meeting, originally scheduled to be held at the Marriott Denver Tech Center, 4900 South Syracuse, Denver, CO 80237, will take place at a later time. Full details, including the meeting location, will be announced later.

The BLM re-established the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board in 1998 to provide input and guidance for 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, which roam public lands in the West. The law mandates the protection, management, and control of these wild horses and burros in a way that ensures a healthy, viable free-roaming herd population 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 a title for 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 exists in 12 Western states, including Alaska. These once remote lands now provide growing Western communities with open space, which enhances the region's character. The Bureau, which maintains 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 aims to sustain health, diversity, and productivity on the public lands so that both present and future generations can use and enjoy them. The BLM accomplishes this goal by managing resources like 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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