Utah's BLM Acres Page 4

Utah's BLM Acres Page 4

Salt Lake Field Office

Cedar Mountains HMA	SLC-Corrals		Onaqui Herd Map
The BLM Salt Lake Field Office manages two wild horse herds and operates a wild horse and burro facility near Butterfield Canyon, overlooking the Salt Lake Valley. Wild horses and burros require open space and healthy rangelands. The BLM manages herd areas carefully, allocating resources for many uses including forage for wildlife, wild horses and livestock. Thanks to volunteers and partners, numerous range improvement projects have helped to make it easier for wild horses to survive. The Horse Center was built in 1995. The center is on seventy acres of land and can hold up to 750 wild horses and burros but on average there are 450 animals on site at any given time. The Center serves as a preparation facility for wild horses and burros gathered in the western United States. Wild horses may be viewed and adopted Monday thru Friday, as well as a few Saturdays during the year.

Butterfield Canyon and Butterfield Canyon Corrals

The Cedar Mountains HMA is located 50 miles west from Salt Lake City and covers 179,584 acres. Wild horses have occupied the Cedar Mountains since the late 1800s. Stock reservoirs and intermittent streams fed by winter snows and spring runoff provide adequate water for the herd. The vegetation on the upper elevations of the Cedar Mountains is comprised juniper trees. The foothills and valley ranges include mixed desert shrubs. Due to range fires during the past 10 years, some of the area is dominated by cheatgrass. Mares and stallions average around 700 to 1000 pounds. The horses are colors are black, bay, sorrel, roan, buckskin, black, pinto, palomino, and gray.

Cedar Mountains Horse Herd		Cedar Mountains

The Onaqui HMA is located 40 miles southwest of Salt Lake City and encompasses 43,880 acres. Stock reservoirs and intermittent streams fed by winter snows and spring runoff provide adequate water for the herd. Wild horses have occupied the Onaqui Mountains since the late 1800s. The upper elevations of the Onaqui Mountains has brush and scattered stands of conifers. Juniper trees grow in the foothills. Sagebrush and cheatgrass grow in the valley. Mares and stallions weigh about 800 to 1000 pounds. Colors are brown, bay, sorrel, roan, buckskin, black, palomino, and gray.

Onaqui HMA Horses		Onaqui HMA Mountains
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