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Resources Case Study #4: The Status of Wild Burros in 2006 – A Critical Analysis By C.R. MacDonald
As of 2007, there were fewer than 3,500 burros left on our public lands, with a target population set below 3,000 nationally, a level that had once been deemed desirable for Southern California alone! By BLM’s own account, wild burro habitat has been reduced by 45% since 1971. In 1980, nineteen burro HMAs were allocated as part of Southern California’s Desert Conservation Area Plan. AML was set at 2,747 burros, with an available habitat of more than three and a half million acres. Today, over
ninety percent of both population and habitat have been eliminated
from the Desert Conservation Area; only two HMAs remain, with less
than 300,000 acres and plans to "manage" for 229 burros.
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