NV DoA Removes Steamboat horses
RENO) Today the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NV DoA), without any notification to the residents in a primarily equestrian community, took a local band of wild horses in the Steamboat Valley area. Many local residents remain unaware the horses are gone.
A local resident that recently put a multimillion dollar property on the market for sale, trapped the horses on his pasture. He then assisted NV DoA by chasing the horses across the pasture and into a trap. This resident only recently put up a rope type gate (that is not always up) to keep horses out.
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Loading adults and babies at the same time
Many Americans confuse NV DoA horses with those managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). NV DoA manages wild horses in a relatively small area under state jurisdiction. BLM manages wild horses on federal land under the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Further confusion arises as NV DoA will house horses at the Carson Correctional Facility, a facility also utilized by BLM. There are major differences in what happens to NV DoA horses compared with those horses captured by the BLM.
BLM horses go into a federally funded “warehousing” system. BLM horses are branded and adopted out to the public, shipped to long term holding facilities or sold. There are issues with the BLM program but they are not the same issues faced by state horses.
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http://wildhorseeducation.org/2014/01/04/nv-doa-removes-steamboat-horses/