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BLM updates Carson City district work in Churchill County, highlights grazing, wild‑horse counts and geothermal leasing
Summary
BLM Assistant Field Manager Mark Mazza briefed the Churchill County board on multiple federal projects: targeted grazing to reduce cheatgrass fire risk, corrected wild‑horse census figures for several herds, ongoing geothermal lease activity, and exploration proposals in Dixie Valley.
Mark Mazza, Assistant Field Manager for the Bureau of Land Management(BLM), told the Churchill County Board of Commissioners that several federal land projects affecting Churchill and neighboring Mineral County are moving through baseline and implementation stages. He described work on the Sand Canyon baseline study and reiterated that recently issued B‑16 grazing decisions completed their appeal period on Oct. 10.
Mazza said the BLM is implementing a first‑of‑its‑kind targeted grazing project under the Great Basin Targeted Grazing and Prescribed Grazing Fuels Reduction environmental assessment. The operator, Pleasant Valley Livestock, is constructing a required perimeter…
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