The Bureau of Land Management released the first group of 14 wild horses to the Hardtrigger Herd Management Area. The entire Hardtrigger Herd Management Area was burned by the 280,000-acre Soda Fire in 2015. The BLM gathered the wild horses following the fire, and cared for those destined to return to the range at both the Boise and Bruneau Off-Range Wild Horse Corral facilities. (Courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management)
Staff from the Bureau of Land Management Owyhee and Four Rivers field offices will perform an emergency gathering of wild horses from the Sands Basin and Four Mile Wild Horse Herd Management Areas next week.
With Idaho’s Jump Fire contained, Jump Creek Recreation Site to reopen in Owyhee County
The areas were nearly completely burned by the Jump Fire , which resulted in 25,720 acres burned, and the Paddock Fire which resulted in 187,185 acres burned.
There is no known loss of wild horses from the fires, but there is not enough vegetation to sustain the horses into the winter months, according to a BLM press release.