I am a little tired of sending these types of letters, only in the view that they are trashed on receiving them.

 

As far as the horse issue.

 

1. The horse person thought the AML was determined in 1981 MFP III. Wrong.

 

2. The horse person does not know that MFP III required 3 and 5 year evaluations to determine numbers.

 

3. The horse person realizes that random gathers over the past 11 years has resulted in small numbers of horses without any consideration for genetic pools....they just culled what they thought they could adopt. So where did she go in the gather plans or EAs.

 

4. The EA did not take in account the 30% utilization limit on riparian vegetation by wild horses and cattle to be  monitored or evaluated.  Therefore, no new AML or validation.

 

5. The Proposed Action is to remove cattle every other year from summer use areas or riparian areas.  This action might present an opportunity to monitor riparian habitat use by strictly horses, but given the total lack of knowledge or process to adjust numbers according to monitoring, BLM will receive this on deaf ears.

 

 

I would suggest that BLM employees learn and participate in these matters rather than act like Virginia City Advocates that speak loud and think not.......