Our Work With The Bureau of Land management

CARSON CITY, NV — The idea that tourism can be an answer to preserve the wild horse has already been enthusiastically adopted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), both here in Nevada and at the National level due in part to such far-sighted leaders as Nevada's Robert Abbey, Jean Rivers Council, and John Singlaub.

Judy Cox, Lacy, and many other independent shareholders in the area assist on a task force headed up by Mr. Singlaub and Ms. Getty of the Carson City BLM office to help establish a National Wild Horse Interpretive Center here in the Reno area. This accomplishes the fulfillment of one of Let ’em Run's earliest and most important goals: To inspire other horse advocacy groups, and the BLM, with the idea that tourism can be a powerful engine to both educate the public and, with the help of their tourism dollars, preserve and support the wild horse.

The preferred site for this BLM center is at the base of the Comstock Historic corridor in Mound House, Nevada. Barring fatal flaws, the site will be the home of the first National Wild Horse Interpretive Center. The site of Mound House is not only breathtakingly beautiful, it is adjacent to a major highway (Hwy 50), allowing it to take advantage of the million and a half tourist visitors who already visit the historic mining camps of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and surrounding areas. The Center, in turn, will help draw even more visitors to the rich cultural experience of one of the largest and most important historic districts west of the Mississippi. In addition, we believe the center will attract investors to consider the extension of the already existing V & T Steam Railroad Line from Virginia City all the way to Carson City, thus enhancing the areas interest as a tourist destination. It will help attract convention business to Carson City, Reno, and Lake Tahoe by offering a fabulous day trips to conventioneers and their families to ride the train, visit the mother lode country, and see the wild horses. This convention destination is desperately needed here in Northern Nevada at this time!

In this instance, the wild horse significantly helps draw attention, becomes a valuable asset to tourism, and begins to pay its own way ensuring its value and the likelihood of its continued preservation. The horses will have their own places to be and will be protected from death on the highways, from rustling, and being shot by mischief doers, etc. Mound House, along the Carson River, also has the advantage of being adjacent to the enormous BLM herd management area of the Pine Nut Range.