Habitat management

Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration through Wild Horse Management

Funding Year

Amount

Location

FY23

$150,000

Mono Basin, California

Project Description

This project will address impacts to meadow habitats that bi-state sage-grouse rely on within the Mono Basin. Currently, there are over 400 wild horses that are well outside their designated wild horse territory, and the current wild horse population is over 400 animals above the appropriate management level. This effort will gather excess animals outside the territory and remove them from federal lands to reduce negative impacts to approximately 300 square miles of sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.

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Partners

Bishop Bureau of Land Management, Carson City Bureau of Land Management, Inyo National Forest, Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest

Contact

Programs

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The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. Sagebrush country contains biological, cultural and economic resources of national significance. America’s sagebrush ecosystem is the largest contiguous ecotype in the continental...