WASHINGTON, June 15 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following press release:
BILLINGS, Mont. - The Bureau of Land Management, in collaborationwith the U.S. Forest Service, announced the development of an environmental assessment to implement a new Joint Herd Management Area Plan for the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range.
The plan establishes a unified federal strategy to manage the wild horse population across jurisdictional boundaries while ensuring compliance with the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. The EA specifically addresses prior federal court mandates to re-evaluate appropriate management levels to achieve a thriving natural ecological balance on the range.
"This joint ...