Tell BLM: No Gas/Oil in Wild Horse Habitat
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org
FROM
American Wild Horse Preservation
October 2014
ACTION
Take action below to demand that the BLM revise its Draft EA to withdraw the 12 parcels that are located within the Antelope Valley to protect wild horses.
Comments Due by Wednesday, Oct 29, 2014
And/Or better yet, make direct contact:
Tom Schmidt
Bureau of Land Management
Project Lead, Elko
3900 E Idaho St
Elko, NV 89801
phone (775) 753-0200
[email protected]
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
Photo by National Geographic.
The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) Elko District in Nevada is asking
for public comments on its draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for 24
parcels that have been nominated for auction for gas and oil development
leases. Twelve of the parcels reside within the Antelope Valley Herd
Management Area (HMA), which is currently home to over 700 wild horses. The
BLM routinely excludes public lands from leasing for gas/oil exploration or
production based on a multitude of reasons ranging from sensitive animal and
plant species to livestock grazing interests. It's time our
federally-protected wild horses get equal protection.
The BLM acknowledges that if these parcels in the HMA are used for gas and
oil exploration or production that the "[i]ncreased human and motorized
activity could disrupt and displace wild horses." In addition, hydraulic
fracturing ("fracking") used to extract oil and natural gas from beneath the
ground, consumes large volumes of water. In these times of severe drought,
when the BLM is talking about the need to remove even more horses from the
range due to lack of water and forage, HMAs must be protected from these
giant consumers of scarce water resources.
Please take action below to demand that the BLM revise its Draft EA to
withdraw the 12 parcels that are located within the Antelope Valley HMA.
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