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Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
The mustang is a free-roaming, feral horse, whose name derives from the Spanish for “stray”. ... lives in the Pryor Mountains near Wyoming. These tough little mustangs have made their home in ...
Bureau of Land Management map of the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range, showing BLM, Crow Nation, Forest Service, National Park Service, private, and state lands. In 1900, there were two to five million feral horses in the United States. [9] However, their numbers were in steep decline as domestic cattle and sheep competed with them for ...
Advocates assert that most current mustang herds live in arid areas which cattle cannot fully utilize due to the lack of water sources. [114] Mustangs can cover vast distances to find food and water; [115] advocates assert that horses range 5–10 times as far as cattle to find forage, finding it in more inaccessible areas. [111]
The showcased horses are then auctioned for adoption. The proceeds from the sales of these trained horses are split between the trainers and the BLM. Not only this, the publicity generated by the competition helps spark interest in other mustangs that the BLM brings to these events. [7] Horse and rider in Extreme Mustang Makeover event
The BLM management of the herd has included improvements to the range to give the horses additional access to water, and numerous roundups that have resulted in the removal and adoption of hundreds of horses to private individuals, including over 50 horses in 2009, 44 in 2012, and 17 horses in 2015.
In 1962, public pressure lead to the establishment of the Nevada Wild Horse Range, [66] and in 1968, the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range was established. In 1969, the National Mustang Association, headquartered in Utah, [ 67 ] persuaded Senator Frank Moss to introduce a bill (S. 2166) to protect the remaining mustangs of Spanish descent under ...
The two horses with the highest bids went for $7,800 and $7,400. This is much higher than the adoption fees paid for other mustangs; horses removed from other herds in Oregon can be adopted for a walk-up fee of $125. [12] Genetic testing has shown that Kiger mustang is a descendant of the Colonial Spanish Horse.