American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY NUMBER: L23AS00020FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS TEXT: THIS AGREEMENT WOULD ALLOW AMERICAN WILD HORSE CAMPAIGN (AWHC) TO START WORKING WITH BLM TO IDENTIFY WILD HORSES THAT ARE PRESENT ON THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN HERD MANAGEMENT AREA (HMA), AND TO ADMINISTER FERTILITY CONTROL VACCINES TO THE WILD MARES THERE. AWHC HAS NOT WORKED IN THIS AREA BEFORE. MILESTONES BELOW DRAW ON THE APPLICANTS TEXT ON PAGE 5 OF THE ORIGINAL AWHC PROPOSAL THAT WAS SPECIFIC TO THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN HMA. THE KEY MILESTONES ARE IDENTIFICATION OF WILD HORSES PRESENT EACH YEAR, AND ADMINISTERING DARTING TO MARES THAT ARE ON THE HMA EVERY YEAR. HOWEVER, THE AWHCS ORIGINAL PROPOSALS INCLUDED LANGUAGE ABOUT THE AWHC ANALYZING DATA AND ADJUSTING TREATMENT GOALS, APPARENTLY WITHOUT CONSULTATION WITH THE BLM. THE MILESTONES SUGGESTED BELOW ARE NOT EXACTLY AS WRITTEN BY THE AWHC, BUT THEY DO CLARIFY THAT BLM RETAINS MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY FOR THESE HERDS, AND THAT DECISIONS ABOUT YEAR-TO-YEAR MANAGEMENT GOALS (TARGETED NUMBER OF MARES TREATED) ARE TO BE MADE BY THE BLM, WITH THE BENEFIT OF CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN AWHC AND BLM.