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This polygon feature class shows the boundaries for AZ Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro (WHB) Herd Areas (HAs). |
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This polygon feature class shows the boundaries for AZ Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro (WHB) Herd Areas (HAs). |
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All Herd Management Areas (HMAs) need to be contained within an originally designated HAs. Management status can change based on changing conditions.
The WHB Program manages BLM land designated as HAs and HMAs as well as the horses, burros, and mules that roam on BLM land. These animals are considered cultural resources by law; therefore, the BLM must manage the animals that roam as a resource. The WHB Program also manages the data and tracks the animals on some land managed by other agencies under agreements with those agencies (e.g. Forest Service Herd Territories). Animal management includes monitoring the wild herds and their habitat, as well as removing some of the animals from the wild, caring for them, and finding responsible owners for them through adoptions and sales.
This polygon feature class represents the spatial extent and boundaries for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro (WHB) Herd Area (HA) polygons. The BLM WHB HAs have been designated by The Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971 as areas that wild horses and burros appeared to be inhabiting.
These areas were designated in 1971 as the result of wild horses and/or burros being found during initial flights of them that same year. As additional surveys were done and data gathered, it was determined that some of these lands and animals were actually on private lands and/or were private animals. Areas with private animals that were "claimed" during the claiming period were not carried forward as Herd Areas. Herd Areas were carried forward in land use plans and determinations were made as to whether or not to manage animals on these federal lands. |
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These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 'as is' and might contain errors or omissions. The User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether these data are fit for the User's intended use. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the sources from which they were derived, and both scale and accuracy may vary across the data set. These data might not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics appropriate for applications that potential users of the data may contemplate. The User is encouraged to carefully consider the content of the metadata file associated with these data. These data are neither legal documents nor land surveys, and must not be used as such. Official records may be referenced at most BLM offices. Please report any errors in the data to the BLM office from which it was obtained. The BLM should be cited as the data source in any products derived from these data. Any Users wishing to modify the data should describe the types of modifications they have performed. The User should not misrepresent the data, nor imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by BLM. This data may be updated by the BLM without notification. |
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BLM AZ Wild Horse and Burro (WHB) Herd Area (HA) Polygon |
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["Arizona","Authorization","AZ","biota","BLM","Bureau of Land Management","Burro","environment","Geospatial","Herd area","Horse","Management","Range","United States","USA","Western States","whb","Wild","Wildlife"] |
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