Unedited direct post of BLM Press Release
BLM Releases Environmental Assessment and Decision on Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range Non-Helicopter Gather
Release Date: 04/04/12
Kristen Lenhardt: 406-896-5228
Cloud behind BLM bars in 2009 ~ photo by Terry Fitch
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Billings Field Office today released the Environmental Assessment (EA) and Decision Record for a 2012 non-helicopter gather of wild horses within the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range (PMWHR). A 30-day appeal period will begin today and end on May 3, 2012. The EA analyzed the effects of the decision to conduct a non-helicopter gather to remove excess wild horses within the PMWHR. The field office received about 1,000 individual comment letters and 63 unique comments on the preliminary EA, and considered those in making the final decision.
The EA identifies a range of alternatives, including the Proposed Action, Alternative A and a No Action alternative. The final decision after conducting the EA states the BLM will move forward with the Proposed Action that recommends a combination of bait trapping, water trapping, and some herding. The gather will be conducted by BLM personnel and is not associated with recent news regarding a BLM solicitation for bait trapping contracts. Since bait trapping can occur year-round, the gather is anticipated to take place at any point during the 2012 calendar year, after June 4.
The gather is designed to manage for the appropriate number of wild horses so that rangelands and horses can be healthy and productive for years to come. The current population is approximately 170 wild horses, exceeding the established Appropriate Management Level (AML) of 90-120 horses, excluding the current year foals.
The Decision may be appealed to the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA), Office of Hearings and Appeals, U.S. Department of the Interior, 801 North Quincy Street, Suite 300, Arlington, Virginia, 22203. The appeal must also be filed with the Authorized Officer, BLM, Billings Field Office, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, MT 59101. If you wish to file a petition for stay of the EA during the pendency of your appeal before the IBLA, the petition for stay must accompany your notice of appeal. If a petition for stay is submitted with the notice of appeal, a copy of the notice of appeal and petition for stay must be served on the IBLA at the same time it is filed with the State Director.
The PMWHR is located in the Pryor Mountains south of Billings, along the Montana-Wyoming border and encompasses approximately 38,000 acres of BLM, U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service managed land.
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Thanks Christie! EVERYONE needs to make the contacts with appealing for the Pryor Mountain horses, as well as ALL the other wild horses. It is ludicrice for the roundups to continue. It is insane for BLM to continue their evil. They MUST be STOPPED, NOW!!
BLM is SUPPOSED to be PROTECTING the Wild Equine – Horses and Burros – yet they are the perpetrators of the most evil and violent crimes against their wards… AND it’s PAID for by the TAXPAYERS!!
CRIMINALS is specifically what they are. Arrest them, spay and neuter them, separate them from their family members, and lock them up in overcrowded pens where they have no clean or dry place to lie down, forced to stand up-to-their-knees in urine soaked mud and manure, and left to starve and suffer thirst and the extreme seasonal elements… Just like they have been doing to the horses and burros they’ve violently captured for the past how-many-years. Let’s see how they like that.
I still can’t figure out how they get by with saying 170 horses (their inflated count) on 38,000 acres is considered “overcrowding”. Then they take those horses and CRAM them into small crowded pens with over a hundred horses in LESS than 5 acres. Do they think we are as IDIOTIC as they themselves are, that we would accept this?? THIS is ALL OUT WAR AGAINST NATURE, and it had BETTER STOP!! Again.. ARREST the CRIMINALS at BLM and their thug hirelings!!
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I agree, see above info with names ,addresses,Phone #’s ! The President Elect says–“all talk ,no action” to Congress people ?? Lets Do This— ACTION !! ACTION ! !!
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