BLM envisions tri-state mega complex for wild horses

Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) California, Oregon and Nevada District Offices along with U.S. Fish and Wildlife are in the conceptual stages of creating a two million acre management complex for wild horses in Southeast Oregon, Northeast California, Northwest Nevada and the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge also in Northeast Nevada. The concept involves a management shift from individual Herd Management Areas ( HMA's) and smaller HMA complexes to an aggregate of HMA's called the Tri-State Complex. BLM's Winnemucca District Office manager, Gene Seidlitz says, " We're just in the initial discussion stages of developing that sort of strategy of treating all of those areas as one big complex based on what we've been finding recently which is a significant amount of movement between HMA's and outside HMA's into other areas." "Speaking just on behalf of Nevada," explains Seidlitz, "I think these complexes are going to be the future. Whether it's complexes out of the Ely District, the Elko District, the Winnemucca District or Nevada Mountain District. I think you're going to see more of these HMA's being treated as complexes based on the location of them and based on the similarities of movement, forage, water, etc."..."Speaking just on behalf of Nevada," explains Seidlitz, "I think these complexes are going to be the future. Whether it's complexes out of the Ely District, the Elko District, the Winnemucca District or Nevada Mountain District. I think you're going to see more of these HMA's being treated as complexes based on the location of them and based on the similarities of movement, forage, water, etc...more