We need your help to stop the Bureau of Land Management’s reckless, misguided wild horse management plan for Nevada’s Callaghan Complex that would rip 4,837 wild horses from their families and 1.1 million-acre home on the range. This crime against nature would be the largest wild horse roundup in history.

Pubic comments are open until Sept. 3, 2025. Additional information is available at the https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2037072/570, where comments may be submitted through the “Participate Now” option (preferred). Comments may also be delivered to BLM Mount Lewis Field Office, Attn: Wild Horse and Burro Specialist, 50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain NV, 89820. The comment period will close on Sept. 3, 2025. 

The corrupt agency beholden to the meat industry claims there should only be 323-552 wild horses in the Callaghan complex, which consists of the Bald Mountain, Callaghan and South Shoshone Herd Management Areas. Meanwhile,  a monstrous 15,187 sheep and 6,703 cattle are allowed to graze in allotments there.

It’s preposterous—even for BLM— to claim the purpose of the management plan is to implement actions necessary to achieve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationships.

The numbers, which the BLM doesn’t even try to hide, don’t lie. They hardly represent the “balance” that the Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971 requires.

BLM’s tired, shameful approach is:

Erasing free-living wild horses from public lands. It is a national disgrace that there are now more wild horses in captivity—62,946—than roaming free. There are only 53, 797 wild horses left on federal public lands. It is high time to halt the roundups and the birth control and to stop blame wild horses for the severe damage the meat and other industries inflict on federal public lands.

Ignores science. BLM’s efforts to reach arbitrary population targets that it calls “Appropriate Management Levels,” or AMLs, are not based on science. As the National Academy of Sciences reported in 2013, “How AMLs are established, monitored and adjusted is not transparent to stakeholders, supported by scientific information or amenable to adaptation with new information and environmental and social change.”

Ignores the severe damage the meat and other industries inflict on federal public lands.

Of the 245 million acres of public land managed by the BLM alone, 155 million is open to livestock grazing. By contrast, BLM restricts wild horses to less than 27 million acres. In all, roughly 2 million cattle graze public lands, not to mention sheep, and the government has authorized thousands of oil, gas and mineral extraction projects on these areas as well.

Recent studies show that wild equids are key to healthy ecosystems and play a vital role by increasing ecosystem resiliency and buffering against negative impacts of climate change.