BLM horse comment thread.

[Scott85]

I figured I’d start a thread to keep track of public comment opportunities related to BLM’s horse management plans. Please let your voices be heard!!!

 

[Scott85]

Central NV HMA Complex Plan
Deadline: September 3, 2025

EplanningUi

eplanning.blm.gov

 

[texwest44]

I had plans to do enroll in the program that lets private landowners "foster" horses for $2-$3 per horse per day, so I'm a little miffed about it, honestly. That program will probably wind up getting scrapped. If y'all aren't familiar with it you should look it up, it was solid.

 

[kansasdad]

I had plans to do enroll in the program that lets private landowners "foster" horses for $2-$3 per horse per day, so I'm a little miffed about it, honestly. That program will probably wind up getting scrapped. If y'all aren't familiar with it you should look it up, it was solid.

Am I doing the math wrong…..that pencils out to 24-40 times cow/calf BLM monthly payments

 

[texwest44]

Am I doing the math wrong…..that pencils out to 24-40 times cow/calf BLM monthly payments

It was a very good program. The catch was that you had to be able to take several trailer loads of horses at once (100+ horses), and the land had to be able to support them as free roaming. Had to be set up with a corral and unloading area, etc. There were a lot of stipulations but wasn't impossible by any means, there were more than a few people enrolled and participating when I talked to BLM about it a few years ago.

 

[Forkyfinder]

It was a very good program. The catch was that you had to be able to take several trailer loads of horses at once (100+ horses), and the land had to be able to support them as free roaming. Had to be set up with a corral and unloading area, etc. There were a lot of stipulations but wasn't impossible by any means, there were more than a few people enrolled and participating when I talked to BLM about it a few years ago.

Thats a LOT of money for what i could solve for under a dollar per horse, permanently.

 

[Badknees104]

Thats a LOT of money for what i could solve for under a dollar per horse, permanently.

now thats what I'm talking about

 

[texwest44]

Thats a LOT of money for what i could solve for under a dollar per horse, permanently.

That was the attractive aspect of it.

The even more attractive part is that if you didn't already own the land but found some land for sale that met the criteria, they'd work with you and the financing institution to buy it. And then it would be yours. It was basically my get-to-retirement-early scheme but I guess I should have seized that opportunity sooner. Easy come, easy go.

 

[Hunting Wife]

BLM spends over $100 million per year on that fostering program. Total waste, does nothing to resolve the issue, and completely unsustainable IMO.

 

[texwest44]

BLM spends over $100 million per year on that fostering program. Total waste, does nothing to resolve the issue, and completely unsustainable IMO.

Yeah the BLM guy I was talking to didn't seem to love it. Pretty appealing to me, though!

 

[grizzly63]

Thay are an invasive species and you know what we should do with them. Hell, sell tags and make money off fixing the problem. Allowing them to destroy the ranges they occupy is criminal.

 

[Forkyfinder]

BLM spends over $100 million per year on that fostering program. Total waste, does nothing to resolve the issue, and completely unsustainable IMO.

Thats absurd.

Im doubting they (blm) spend that much on elk habitat.

 

[eshunt]

I have written comments for a couple of the BLM proposed round ups. I received a certified letter letting me know of the decision on one of them. Was curious why I was getting a certified letter from the DOI, turned out it was just to notify me of the decision. I had to go down to the PO to pick it up. Talk about a waste of money and resources, having to mail out certified letters to everyone that submitted a comment. And then my time to have to go down and wait in line to pick it up. Just to find out that it was the same information I had already seen online.

I will keep commenting in support of the feral horse and burro reductions though! Get them animals off the landscape!

 

[eshunt]

Central NV HMA Complex Plan
Deadline: September 3, 2025

EplanningUi

eplanning.blm.gov

Done!

 

[Scott85]

Another link to take action to remove the riders from the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (WFRHBA). https://www.backcountryhunters.org/...-UlvVjtzxFSATN1g_aem_IcRB6NQ-Ebc67g4YnlsG6g#/

 

[mevertsen]

I have written comments for a couple of the BLM proposed round ups. I received a certified letter letting me know of the decision on one of them. Was curious why I was getting a certified letter from the DOI, turned out it was just to notify me of the decision. I had to go down to the PO to pick it up. Talk about a waste of money and resources, having to mail out certified letters to everyone that submitted a comment. And then my time to have to go down and wait in line to pick it up. Just to find out that it was the same information I had already seen online.

I will keep commenting in support of the feral horse and burro reductions though! Get them animals off the landscape!

I got the same certified letter. Lol.

I was sweating a couple days, wondering, "who in the Hell did I piss off at BLM?"

We live 40 miles from the post office.

Got the letter and saw they spent over $10 to send me a form letter.



DOGE missed that one.