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BLM Wants to Burn Cloud’s Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range

Posted by on October 1, 2013

BLM Proposes to Burn Cloud’s Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range

“Review and Comments Needed”

photo by Terry Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation

photo by Terry Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation

The  Billings MT office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has indicated that approximately 6,000 acres in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range would be selectively burned by the BLM over several years to allegedly lesson the danger of a large fire under a proposed plan outlined in an environmental assessment.

The document is open to public comment through Oct. 24.

Treatments would include varying degrees of pre-treatment, prescribed fire, and post-treatment activities. Prescribed fires would likely occur between June and November depending on conditions.

The public can review the PMWHR Preliminary Prescribed Fire EA at the Billings Field Office website at http://blm.gov/kdld. Comments can be emailed to blm_mt_wildhorse@blm.gov or mailed to the Billings Field Office, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, MT 59101.

Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, be advised that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time.

For more information about the EA, call BLM Billings field manager Jim Sparks at (406) 896-5241.

 

StartSelection:0000000199 EndSelection:0000000839 Please do not start fires in this range.

SAMPLE LETTER:

<blm_mt_wildhorse@blm.gov>

Burning the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range:
It could easily get out of control
And damage the wildlife
And cause countless dollars for fire control
For no good reason.
Let nature take its course
And stop starting fires that should not happen.
Manmade fires will destroy this habitat
And endanger the wild horses.
No one can guarantee manmade fires will help anything.
Please be sensible and smart.
Stop playing with mother nature.

Denise Brown
American citizen
Portsmouth NH

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