Wild Horses Overpopulated in Nevada

[Beendare]

Good article on the Go Hunt site

From the article:

Wild horse advocates have argued that BLM is embellishing the overpopulation problem, but Ben Noyes, a Nevada Wild Horse & Burro Specialist with BLM’s Ely District, told KUNR Public Radio that he’s seen the damage first-hand, “especially the spring areas, the riparian areas are really getting hit hard. They're getting pounded out. A lot of our winter fat sites [white sage brush] are getting destroyed.”

He’s also witnessed wild horses “starving and thirsting to death.”
“And if you haven't seen horses die, to me, you haven't seen the real picture,” said Noyes. “It's pretty easy to sit at home and think it's just the Lion King show, but the reality of it is it's not that way on the range.”

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Maybe we should let the biologist types in the Yellowstone basin exacerbate the problem with their solution for controlling elk: Wolves /sarcasm

 

[unclericco]

I lived and hunted in Wyoming and also Utah for several seasons and I ran into plenty of wild horses, but I never seen anything remotely close to the massive amount of horses since I started hunting Nevada. It’s really shocking they’ve let something populate a range like this. They’re ALL OVER THE PLACE in Nevada as far as you can see. You gotta see it to believe it.

 

[jeffpg]

Yeah, I witnessed this firsthand during my antelope hunt in the NW corner of Nevada in 2015. I thought I'd seen a lot of them elsewhere, but they were plentiful in Nevada.

Meateater has a very good podcast highlighting this highly contraversial issue.

 

[JWP58]

I've got an idea. Repeal the wild horse and burro act, and start using them to feed the homeless/needy. 360 win, create jobs (killing, butchering, transporting), food, and help the landscape.

I hear filly cheesesteak sammich are the bomb.

 

[dtrkyman]

New Mexico has an issue with them, you want to see an anti have a melt down then tell em your going horsey hunting


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[jfs82]

I'd happily hunt horse, had some meat overseas, it's delicious.

 

[Fatcamp]

As soon as tags are available I will apply.

Ridiculous the damage they are doing is ignored because of feelings. Absolutely stupid.

 

[ODB]

Horse is excellent meat.

 

[Felix40]

They tried to do a hunt here but it got shut down due to protestors and such. There have been several habitat projects done to fence them out of riparian areas too.

When one gets hit on the road you wouldnt believe the bleeding hearts. Dozens of elk get hit every week but nobody bats an eye.

 

[Tony Trietch]

Good on GoHunt to do the article, I just wish they would use the correct name. They are not wild horses, they are feral horses.
Last year while scouting NV I saw hundreds of them, easily more than than all the deer, elk and sheep I saw combined.

 

[Beendare]

If you drive some of those backroads between Or/NV on the weekend you will come on cars parked off the side of the road just watching those feral horses with binos. Lots of folks have a thing for that.

I've seen their devastation first hand. They are very hard on that sensitive high desert Flora. Waterholes- fuggetit- everything within 80' of that water is trampled.

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[muddydogs]

For years I have been saying "what people fail to realize is there not wild horses there feral horses. They don't call the feral hogs in the southern US wild so why are we calling these horses wild". Glad to see some articles on this subject not that they will effect the radical bleeding hearts. The bleeding hearts sure like the term wild as it gets the other bleeding hearts more on board when they hear that the wild horses are being killed but there isn't a lot of sympathy of the feral hog. There are still people out there that think horses once roamed the country with the deer and elk long before the white man set foot on the continent and get down right angry when its pointed out that horses were introduced by the white man and not native to the continent.

 

[DenverCountryBoy]

Unfortunately, like a lot of things these days, this is an issue that will be fought in the court of public opinion and not based on scientific merit.

The misnamed Wild Horse and Burro act will need to be ammended to establish population objectives or repealed entirely. Politicians won't want to touch this unless there is overwhelming public support.

 

[MLon9242]

If it helps the land and it helps the animals then it should be allowed no matter how sad some people think it is. But if it's just an excuse to shoot something different then it's just an excuse. Real hunters that know the land and know the animals should have a real forum to help with these situations. It shouldn't be left to politicians. Real hunters aren't just out to shoot something. They know what over hunting does to an animal population and that's not what hunters want. Real hunters want animals to thrive and the land to thrive. Without flourishing land and healthy animals hunting has no incentive. Healthy land, healthy animals, healthy meat.

 

[isu22andy]

Sounds like good 7 mag practice targets .


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[Rob5589]

Just driving through on 80 you see them all over. Can only imagine how many you'd see getting off the hwy.

 

[Beendare]

Well it seems that there are some animals that bring out a lot of emotion in folks- understandably...and horses are one of them.

I've seen the devastation first hand. They are very hard on that high desert ecosystem. It seems the current strategy is to sit on their hands until that ecosystem is wasted beyond reparations....hogtied by politics.

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[jspradley]

If wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak!

 

[milunchbox]

My in-laws live in reno/ sparks and every morning I would go for a walk. No kidding I would see 50-75 horses in the subdivision. They would eat everything and crap everywhere.

 

[DenverCountryBoy]

It's illegal to hunt free roaming horses on federal land, but what about on private? Should we be out get trespass permissions?