WILD HORSES AND BURROS

BLM Nevada’s FY 2008 budget for planned and emergency wild horse or burro gathers has been allocated. This means that between now and September 30, 2008, unplanned emergency BLM wild horse or burro removals in Nevada are unlikely. The most recent national direction that talked about wild horse and burro management and drought was WO IM 2004-151 which said that adjustments in wild horse and burro numbers due to escalating problems such as drought would have to occur within existing state removal numbers. It also adopted the four phase approach to drought management described in WO IM 2003-074.