Comments are due March 1st on a mining project that will use a lot of water near Eureka, NV, and will affect America’s wild horses in Nevada.
Please send a quick e-mail to mhmm_project@blm.gov (Attn: Angelica Rose) and ask BLM to:
1) Choose the NO ACTION ALTERNATIVE
2) Do one foot and five foot water drawdown maps for this project.
3) This proposed use will use a lot of water from the aquifer and take away from wild horse use, thus not maintaining a “thriving ecological balance.”
4) The BLM’s vague analysis of wild horses in this DEIS was generic, incorrect (horses have “no natural predators”), less than a page long and did not specifically address wild horses in nearby areas.
The DEIS mentions wild horses in Volume 2, section 3.13 (on pages 3-407 and 3-408) on link:
“While the BLM seems concerned that there’s not enough water or forage for wild horses, they are bending over backwards to approve this mining project, which will use about 7,000 gallons of water per minute (GPM) for the life of the mine (40-50 years) and will draw 11,300 acre feet annually (afa) from the aquifer,” states Debbie Coffey, wild horse advocate.
“Water is of huge concern for wild horses in Nevada,” explains Anne Novak, executive director of Protect Mustangs. “This project will use a lot of water from the aquifers–negatively affecting the rural water table and wild horses on public lands.”