Wyoming State Office
| Contacts: | Cindy Wertz | |||
| 307-775-6014 |
Wild Horse Hearing Scheduled
The Bureau of Land Management’s Wyoming State Office will host the annual statewide hearing on the use of motorized vehicles in wild horse management operations on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 6:30 - 8 p.m.
The hearing will be held at BLM's Wyoming State Office, 5353 Yellowstone, Cheyenne, Wyo. Comments made during the formal public hearing will be recorded.
Various types of motorized vehicles (trucks, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft) are used routinely in conducting wild horse management for population inventories, habitat & population monitoring, removal operations, and transporting horses to adoptions and holding facilities. BLM plans to use helicopters to help gather wild, free roaming horses from the public lands in the Cody, Worland, and Lander Field Office jurisdictions in 2009.
For more information regarding the public meeting contact Marty Griffith at 307-775-6093.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
Wyoming State Office PO Box 1828 Cheyenne, WY 82003 5353 Yellowstone Cheyenne, WY 82009