ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Elko District Office, Wells Field Office have concluded a wild horse gather within the Antelope Valley and Goshute Herd Management Areas located in Elko County, Nevada. The BLM gathered 902 wild horses and removed 887 excess wild horses.
The BLM conducted the gather, which ran from September 19 through Oct. 2, due to deteriorating animal health from lack of water and forage on the range.
As of March 2018, the number of wild horses on the two HMAs was eight times the appropriate management level (AML), which is the number of horses the water and forage on the range can sustainably support. The population estimate for the Antelope Valley was 1,755 with an AML of 155-259 wild horses. The population of Goshute, where the AML is 74-123, is estimated at 1,429.
The horses identified for removal were transported to the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corrals in Fallon, Nev., where they will be checked by a veterinarian and readied for the BLM’s wild horse and burro adoption and sale program.
For information on how to adopt a wild horse or burro, visit www.blm.gov/whb.
Additional gather information is available on BLM’s website at https://go.usa.gov/xP4mv.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
