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THe Wild Horse and Burro Act is about more than removals. The court affirmed the intention of law is to manage and planning needs to be completed.<\/i><\/p>\n \u2014 Laura Leigh, founder of Wild Horse Education<\/p>\n<\/div>\n RENO, NEVADA, UNITED STATES, March 29, 2024 \/EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ — Today the Honorable Miranda Du ruled that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has unreasonably delayed crafting Herd. Management Area Plans (HMAPs) for wild horses in the Pancake<\/a> Complex in central Nevada. The Order<\/a> (Case No. 3:22-cv-00034-MMD-CLB) from the court remands the Pancake Gather Environmental Assessment (EA) back to BLM for further analysis including those involving wildfire risk and orders that an HMAP be prepared for the complex within one year. Just as with surveys and monitoring, HMAP development is a key component in the decisionmaking process for BLM\u2019s wild horse and burro management activities on the ground. In addition, these documents often include public involvement through the NEPA process.<\/p>\n BLM has never completed an HMAP for the Pancake complex or the individual Herd Management Areas (HMAs) included in the complex. This failure has denied the public an opportunity to address how forage is allocated, water improvements to distribute population, specific genetic preservation, mitigation measures for mining and livestock expanding in the area and more.<\/p>\n \u201cI am simply elated. The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act is about more than just removal. Today, the court affirmed the intention of that law.\u201d stated Laura Leigh, President of Wild Horse Education<\/a> (WHE). \u201cFor over twelve years I have been trying to address critical issues of on-range management planning with BLM and have been repeatedly denied. There is no replacement for the HMAP where the public has the only opportunity to address specifics of management planning and actions to achieve those goals. Finally, after 38 years, BLM will need to provide that opportunity.\u201d Laura Leigh
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\nThe Order from the Honorable Miranda Du reads:\u00a0
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\n\u201cEngaging in the decision-making of an HMAP without actually preparing an HMAP could therefore deprive interested parties of the administrative review processes to which they are entitled.\u201d\u00a0
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\n\u201cBLM\u2019s decades- long delays in developing and approving HMAPs have therefore been \u201cnothing short of egregious\u201d and clearly violate the rule of reason.\u201d\u00a0
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\nBLM defines the HMAP in the 2020 Report to Congress:
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\nHerd Management Area Plans (HMAPs) summarize the management goals for an HMA and the anticipated actions required to achieve those goals… The process of developing and updating these plans would continue to provide the opportunity to inform and involve the public in determining the best actions to take on an HMA into the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cI am both elated and exhausted after this long fight,\u201d Leigh of WHE continued, \u201cThis ruling has finally opened the door to advocacy and actually has the opportunity to engage management practices.\u201d
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\n“Rewilding America Now (formerly the Cana Foundation) would like to thank the court, for its fact based verdict, Jessica Blome and her team for their hard work\u00a0but most of all Laura Leigh from Wild Horse Education for her tireless work for our wild horses,\u201d said Manda Kalimian, founder of RAN,\u00a0\u201cEnvironmental rewilding with wild horses is the way forward to protect our lands, horses and all wild life on the range. The Pancake verdict has set precedence for procedures in managing our wild horses and range lands.\u201d\u00a0
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\n\u201cThe concepts of rewinding, healing the landscape through integration of species, are important,\u201d continued Kalimian, \u201cWith this ruling we will have an opportunity to propose the rewinding alternative for the horses of the Pancake Complex during the creation of the HMAP.\u201d\u00a0
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\nPlaintiff\u2019s in the case (Laura Leigh, Wild Horse Education, Rewilding America Now, Animal Wellness Action, Center for a Humane Economy) would like to thank Greenfire Law of Berkley, California, the De Castroverde Law Group of Nevada and the court.\u00a0
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\nAdditional information:
\nThe Pancake Complex spans approximately 1.5 million acres, about 30 miles west of Ely or 80 miles northeast of Tonopah, Nev., consists of the Sand Springs West and Pancake Herd Management Areas (HMAs), Jakes Wash Herd Area (HA) and Monte Cristo Wild Horse Territory (WHT). The BLM Battle Mountain District, Tonopah Field Office administers the Sand Springs West HMA. The BLM Ely District Office administers the Pancake HMA and Jakes Wash HA. The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Ely Ranger District administers the Monte Cristo WHT.<\/p>\n
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