Wild Horse Adventures

CENTENNIAL HMA Some of these animals live primarily on the China Lake Naval Weapons Base and some live outside the Base. The Navy helps manage the herds. The herd is thought to descend from ranching stock. The horses tend to be of solid colors and range in size from 14 to 16 hands and weigh between ...

CARTER RESERVOIR HMA The majority of this herd is dun horses. They come in duns of all varieties, including dun, red dun, grulla, and even dun striping on other colors less commonly found. The horses tend to be of good size, ranging in height from 14 to 16 hh and weighing between 900 and 1,100 pound...

BUCKHORN HMA This area contains horses thought to originate from Spanish stock diluted with ranch stock and US Cavalry remounts prior to and during World War I. The influence of the US Cavalry remounts program is especially apparent in these horses. The horses tend to be solid colored and of good si...

BITNER HMA The Bitner HMA horses are stocky, solidly built animals in general, ranging from 14 to 16 hh weighing between 900 to 1100 pounds. They can be colorful with many pintos, along with solid colors. These horses likely originated from historic ranching operations in the area. Location: The Bit...

LAKE PLEASANT HMA Approximately 90% of the wild burros are gray with the remaining 10% being black, brown, tan and red. Some posses the shoulder cross characteristic of the ancestral Nubian and Somali wild asses and many have the leg stripes associated with the Nubian Wild Ass. The average height of...

HAVASU HMA Burros evolved in the deserts of North Africa and adapted very well to the desert environment of the Havasu HMA. Left alone in this remote region with few natural predators, the wild burro population thrived. Today, the population is estimated to be 178 animals, with about half living wit...

CIBOLA-TRIGO HMA Approximately 90% of the Wild Burros are gray with the remaining 10% being black, brown, white, pinto, or piebald. Some posses the shoulder cross characteristics of the ancestral Nubian and Somali wild asses and many have the leg barring associated with the Nubian Wild Ass. The mean...

CERBAT MOUNTAINS HMA The Cerbat Horse Area (HA) is one of two wild horse HAs in Arizona. There are several popular beliefs concerning the origin of this particular herd. One theory is that the Cerbats are descendants of Spanish mustangs, introduced as early as the 1500s. A second theory is that thes...

BLACK MOUNTAIN HMA Descendants of burros brought by miners and prospectors from the early 1860s. These burros are of North African Ancestry. Location: The Black Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA) is in extreme northwestern Arizona, 15 miles west of Kingman. The area parallels the eastern shoreline ...

BIG SANDY HMA Wild burros living in the Big Sandy HMA today are typically gray, though some may be brown, pink, or black. These animals weigh between 450 and 500 pounds and average 44 inches in height at the shoulder when fully grown. The burros generally inhabit the lower areas of the region, prefe...

ALAMO HMA Left alone in this remote region with few natural predators, the wild burro population here flourished to more than 1,000 animals by the mid-1970s. The first wild burro capture effort by the BLM in Arizona took place near Alamo Lake. In 1977, and again in 1979, nearly 900 animals were remo...

Love them! Great shots of amazing horses!

The Spring Creek Basin herd includes bays, sorrels, grays and pintos. Legend says that in the early 1900s, a Montana rancher came to Disappointment Valley with a herd of stolen horses that he raised to sell to the U.S. Cavalry and other groups. When the law began to close in on him, he gathered some...

Horses within the HMA are similar in size and temperament to quarter horses, and some resemble work horses. Typical colors are bay, gray, sorrel and black. A few horses are also other colors like roan and buckskin. Location: The Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area is in northwest Colorado, so...

Looks like a great story. Will definitely have to make time to watch it! Thanks!

What dos the government shutdown mean to the operations of the BLM?
Here is what will happen:

As of November 2018

One of my favorite animals to find when in Sand Wash Basin, Colorado is the American Badger. Here are a couple different ones. Badgers tend to be fairly stealthy and elusive during the day, so getting to see one in daylight is always a treat for me.

Savannah, born May 24th, 2018
Dam: Hopscotch
Sire: Tecate

"This year due to the drought we have seen more wild horses on highway 318, more often than ever before. Highway 318 runs through the southern boundary of the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area. The south side of 318 is fenced, we would like to see the north side also fenced. Fencing the north sid...

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