TASSI-GOLD BUTTE HMA ACTION ALERT: Say NO to Proposal for Zeroing-Out Burros

The Tassi-Gold Butte Herd Management Area was redesignated as a Herd Area in 1995, and AML set to zero. Despite an initial removal effort, some burros remained. BLM estimates up to 291 burros currently in the HMA will be removed.

Photo credit, Ginger Kathrens.

Wild burros in the USA are facing a genetic health crisis due to the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) mismanagement that keeps herd numbers low and too often zeros them out entirely. This is the case for the Tassi-Gold Butte burros. We will not be silent when BLM tells us that they will zero out yet another burro herd... which is why we're writing you today.

 BLM states that the reason for removing the burros is aimed at protecting the desert tortoise and water sources. There is NO livestock grazing permitted in the Herd Management Area (HMA), yet there IS livestock grazing occurring in the adjoining Desert Tortoise Designated Critical Habitat and surrounding allotments! How disingenuous of BLM to target removing the burros before addressing the livestock! 

 Hold on. It gets worse. BLM proposes using helicopters to stampede the burros to men on horseback who will rope the already frightened animals... a cruel method sure to cause these sensitive animals fear, pain and possible death. 🚁

 Please take QUICK ACTION and tell the BLM that they must abandon the 1995 plan to eliminate ALL burros from the Tassi-Gold Butte HMA in northwestern Arizona (35 miles from Mesquite, Nevada). 

Getting public comments on the record is important -- otherwise BLM can claim the public supports their gross mismanagement. Please join us. Call on BLM to re-evaluate their decision to zero out this HMA. Instead, they should implement actions that would negate the need to remove hundreds of these wild burros.

 Please click the DARK BLUE BUTTON below and take one minute to make your voice heard by September 9, 2024.

 ~ The Cloud Team

Field research proves burros are critical habitat engineers -- digging holes to find water that also provide water sources for an array of desert animals, including livestock! Check out this video by ecologist, Dr. Erick Lundgren!

A n AZ "long-ear" mother and foal. Photo credit, Ginger Kathrens.