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Back to GalleryNEVADA WILD HORSE & BURRO HERD MANAGEMENT AREAS |
 Click on a district on the map to go to a page for that district | Nevada has over 100 HMA's, and also it has more wild horses than all the other states combined. Because of their sheer numbers, Nevada HMA's have not been studied to the extent that they have in some of the other states. Nevada horses are no less unique and wonderful, however. And there ARE identifiable herd characteristics.There are so many Nevada HMA's that they cry out for organization. Here are a few ways. Choose whichever one makes sense to you: |
NEVADA HERDS LISTED BY BLM FIELD OFFICE:
HMA's lying partly or entirely within Nevada but administered by California
- Carter Reservoir
- Massacre Lakes
- Bitner
- Nut Mountain
- Wall Canyon
- High Rock
- Fox Hog
- Buckhorn (spans CA & NV borders )
- Coppersmith (spans CA & NV borders )
- Twin Peaks (spans CA & NV borders )
Ladybug from White Pine (#72- no longer a HMA)
Adopted by Janet Tipton
NEVADA BLM FIELD OFFICES: (click for herd areas within any district)
- Elko Field Office (Nevada North East Nevada - HMA's # 100's)
- Winnemucca Field Office (North West Nevada - #200's plus #311)
- Carson City Field Office (Reno Area - # 300's + # 606)
- Ely Field Office (East-Central Nevada : #400's & 500's)
- Las Vegas Field Office (Southern Nevada - # 500's)
- Battle Mountain Field Office (Central Nevada - # 600's)
These are the Nevada Herd Management Areas, in Alphabetical Order:
Complexes
If you look at the MAP OF NEVADA HERD MANAGEMENT AREAS, you will see that many herd areas are connected to one another. Nevada topography is made up of a series of predominantly North-South mountain ranges and the flat-to-rolling valleys between them. But very few of these mountain ranges pose so formidable a barrier as to prevent animals from crossing over them, and the valley areas tend to be quite extensive.
 Above, studs labeled #18 and #15
| These horses, gathered in September of 2003 from the Blue Wing HMA, were part of a migratory study. Tracking numbers were freeze-branded onto their hips. This study shows that HMA boundaries are for human management purposes, but the wild horses themselves are often able to move through the adjoining HMA's throughout their lifetimes. |
Wild horses are migratory by nature. In real life, they do not either know about or respect the boundaries of the HMA's that people have set for them. Their stability is with their band, not their location. It is no surprise that horses from the various HMA's within a functional complex resemble one another! The BLM is starting to manage HMA's as Complexes that recognize this fact.
Herd Areas identified in 1971 as part of the Wild Horse & Burro Protection Act but no longer maintained:
data from http://www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov/statistics/2005/index.htm
since 1-23-2006
