BLM concludes Eagle Complex wild horse gather
ELY, Nev. –
The Bureau of Land Management’s Caliente and Cedar City field offices concluded the Eagle Complex wild horse gather on February 16, 2021. The BLM gathered 1,074 excess wild horses from in and around the Chokecherry, Eagle, and Mt. Elinore Herd Management Areas (HMAs) located in Lincoln County, Nevada, and Beaver and Iron counties, Utah. The BLM treated 50 mares with the fertility control vaccine GonaCon-Equine and released them back into the Eagle HMA.
The purpose of the gather was to prevent undue or unnecessary degradation of the public lands associated with excess wild horses, and to restore a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationship on public lands, consistent with the provisions of Section 1333(b) of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Removing excess animals would also enable significant progress toward achieving the Standards for Rangeland Health identified by the Mojave-Sou