Dl4—Lancaster Famine, Saturday, February 9,1980
New regulations
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sidered comparably with
other resource values in the
development of resource
managemnt plans, and the
animals will be allocated as
appropriate portion of the
available forage. The
presence of one or more
animals qualifies wild
horses or burros for con
sideration in the multiple use
planning for a particular
area.
Inventory and planning
are among other
management areas ad
dressed in the final
regulations. As a basis for
making its management
decisions, the Bureau will
maintain a current in
ventory for each area where
a herd exists. A herd is one
or more stallions and their
mares or jacks and their
jennies.
The inventory will
estimate animal numbers,
productivity, sex ratio, and
age structure. Using BLM’s
multiple use planning
system and information
developed from the in
ventory, appropriate actions
needed to achieve proper
population levels will be
determined. Where
rangelands are seriously
deteriorated from over
population, excess wild
horses or burros may be
removed without this in
ventory and planning
process.
In determining over
population, appropriate
management levels, and
animal population control
methods, BLM must consult
with a wide range of in
dividuals and government
agencies.
These include the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service,
State wildlife agencies,
individuals recommended
by the National Academy of
Sciences, and other BLM
selected persons with
scientific expertise or
special knowledge of wild
horse and burro protection,
wildlife management and
animal husbandry.
The order and manner in
which excess and problem
animals will be removed
from the public lands are
established in the final
regulation.
Old, sick, or lame excess
animals will be humanely
destroyed; additional excess
animals for which a demand
exists will be humanely
captured, removed, and
placed in adoption; ad
ditional excess animals for
which there is no adoption
demand, and for which
relocation to other public
lands is not practical, will be
destroyed m the most
humane manner possible.
Where a BLM officer finds
it is not practical to capture
and remove excess animals
for adoption, he or his
authorized agent may
humanely destroy the
animals.
Problem animals will be
removed and disposed of in
the same manner as excess
animals, including the
relocation or return to the
public lands. Problem
animals are wild horses and
burros that threaten the
safety or welfare of persons,
wildlife, livestock, or
property; or those that have
an infectious disease or are
seriously ill.
Before wild horses and
burros are relocated to a
different area of the public
lands, a written deter
mination must be made by
the Bureau that the action
meets the requirements of
the Bureau’s resource
management plans and
adequate forage exists for
the relocated animals.
Reflecting the upcoming
transfer of ownership to
adopters, the regulations
permit disposal in any
customary manner of
animals that have lost then
wild, free-roaming status.
Until title to an animal has
been transferred, however,
no consideration can be
received!or the carcass.
Standards for transporting
wild horses and burros over
long distances are set in the
rulemaking. A section has
been added stating that
unless otherwise approved
by an authorized BLM of
ficer, transportation shall be
under humane conditions
and limited to 24 hours in
transit, followed by a
minimum of five hours of
rest with adequate feed and
water. „
The new regulations
finalize rulemaking
proposed by BLM in the
Federal Register on April 6,
1979, with a 60-day comment
period. Comments were
received from 34 sources,
including individuals, State
Governments, businesses,
environmentalists, Federal
agencies, humane societies,
and recreatinni’tf't
Protect shrubs from
snow damage
MEDIA The heavy
snows of winter can do a lot
of damage to evergreen
trees and shrubs. James J.
McKeehen, Delaware
County Extension
Agricultural Agent, suggests
you sweep piles of snow from
the branches after a heavy
snowfall.
Never pound snow loose
with a broom handle or other
hard object. This may
damage the needles or fme
twigs, and sometimes plant
parts are frozen and will
snap off if you get too rough
with them. Instead, use a
broom or large snow brush
from your car and sweep the
snow away.
If the lower branches are
bent under the burden of
snow or buried beneath
drifts, lift them gently and
shake the snow off. Branches
that stay boned for some
tune may become bent out of r
shape. And snow resting too
long on evergreen leaves or
needles may melt and turn to
ice. If the leaves are covered
with ice too long in sunny
weather, they can be
damaged and appear to be
brown and dead in the
spring. This is often true of
yew, boxwood, and holly
Pyramidal evergreens
such as arborvitae, jumper,
and yew are sometimes
damaged seriously by just a
single heavy snowfall or ice
"I \ ■ "-bed its Adopt-
A-Horse program nation
wide in Spring 1976 after
successfully adopting out
excess wild horses and
burros for several years in
the Western States. Animals
have since been placed in <
foster homes m 47 States.
Adopters tram the animals
for working or for showing,
riding, packing and other
recreational uses.
Persons interested in
adopmg a wild horse or
burro may obtain in
formation on the program by
writing Adopt- A-Horse,
Dept. 694 G, Consumer In
formation Center, Pueblo,
Colorado 81009.
storm. The extreme weight
can break or bend the entire
plant completely out of
shape. To prevent this, tie a
rope loosely m a coil or
spiral fashion around the
evergreen, starting at the
bottom. Chicken wire can
also be used, and the same
treatment works on larger
spreading trees, too. It’s not
too late to wrap these trees if
you haven’t done it already
because we may still have
some heavy, wet snow. Keep
the plants wrapped until all
danger of heavy snow has
passed.
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