Herd Management Areas (HMAs) of Idaho

This theme shows Herd Management Areas (HMAs). Wild horses are managed in accordance with the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971, which gives BLM the responsibility to protect wild horses while ensuring their populations are in balance with the ecological capacity of public lands. Idaho's public lands are home to over 640 wild horses that occupy six herd management areas (HMAs). Five herd management areas are located in the Lower Snake River District and one HMA is located in the Challis Field Office. BLM studies each HMA to determine how many wild horses the area can support while providing for other land uses and resource values. The overall capacity of the HMA to support wild horses is called its Appropriate...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Bruneau Resource Area, Bureau of Land Management, Cascade Resource Area, Herd Management Area, Lower Snake River District, All tags... Management Boundaries, Owyhee Resource Area, Wild Horses, Wildlife, Fewer tags

BLM GRSG BER: BLM Wild Horse and Burro Herd Management Areas (polygon)

Polygon features depicting the Wild Horse and Burro Herd Management Areas. Frozen dataset for use in the GRSG National CEA effort.

Types: Downloadable; Tags: Authorization, BER, BLM, Baseline-Environmental Report, Bureau of Land Management, All tags... GRSG, Greater Sage-Grouse, Herd Management Area, Management, Range, Vegetation, Wild Horse and Burro, Wildlife, biota, boundaries, farming, planningCadastre, Fewer tags

BLM REA MBR 2010 whb HMA20110628

Herd Areas (HAs) are where horses were located during a flight inventory in the early 1970s as required by legislation. Herd Management Areas (HMAs) are locations where there is sufficient resources managed by the BLM to support horse or burro populations as identified in a BLM planning document. This polygon database displays HAs and HMAs across the west.

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Biological, Bureau of Land Management, DOI, Ecological, All tags... Fauna, Geospatial, Grazing, Habitat Quality, Herd Area, Herd Management Area, Land Use Planning, MBR 2010, Mojave Basin and Range, REA, Range, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Recreation, Wildlife, biota, environment, location, Fewer tags

BLM REA CBR 2010 whb HMA20110628

Herd Areas (HAs) are where horses were located during a flight inventory in the early 1970s as required by legislation. Herd Management Areas (HMAs) are locations where there is sufficient resources managed by the BLM to support horse or burro populations as identified in a BLM planning document. This polygon database displays HAs and HMAs across the west.

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Biological, Bureau of Land Management, CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, All tags... DOI, Ecological, Fauna, Geospatial, Grazing, Habitat Quality, Herd Area, Herd Management Area, Land Use Planning, REA, Range, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Recreation, Wildlife, biota, environment, farming, location, Fewer tags