RIDGECREST, Calif. April 18, 2012 – This week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received comments from over 4,100 members of the public opposing the planned roundup of burros from the historic Piute Mountain Herd Area (HA) in the eastern Mojave Desert. The emails, sent to the BLM’s Ridgecrest Field Office, also urged the BLM to forgo removal of “nuisance” burros from the Chocolate Mule Mountains HA, urging the agency instead to relocate any burros found on private lands to the public lands in this vast southern California desert area.
The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), a coalition of more than 45 organizations is urging the BLM to implement available alternatives to the proposed roundup in order to leave wild burros on the range where they belong.
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