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Public Lands Council backs BLM gathers, votes to send letter urging wild-horse levels kept at AML
Summary
The Emery County Public Lands Council voted unanimously to draft and send a letter urging the Bureau of Land Management to keep wild-horse populations at Appropriate Management Levels and to treat overages as grounds for emergency gathers.
The Emery County Public Lands Council voted unanimously to draft and send a letter urging the Bureau of Land Management to keep wild-horse populations within appropriate Appropriate Management Level (AML) ranges and to treat excess animals as grounds for emergency gathers.
The council took the vote after a detailed report from a BLM field representative, who described two July gathers in the Muddy Creek Herd Management Area. The BLM representative said crews removed about 189 horses in July (an initial emergency removal of 40 in June followed by additional actions in July that removed 39 and 110 animals in different locations). He said the agencyestimates a total herd population of about 246 head including foals, equivalent to roughly 218 adult-equivalent animals, and that the herd remains above AML.
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