"Interesting... I just talked to a coworker with horses and a lot of local horse experience. She said that, in that area, free-ranging of even pampered domestic horses is common, and they run around in the hills, eat, do whatever horses do, and return home."
That is incorrect information. Cattle can be grazed in the areas on the BLM in Idaho in the wild horse range but not domestic horses. If you are not in the wild horse range then
it's a different story.
In case you didn't notice there are many cross fences and cattle guards in this end of Owyhee county to divide up the grazing range. The wild horses are not free to roam
whereever they want to go. If someone did lose a horse here it would be a simple matter
to go find it. This would be considered a remote area for a person from Boise no doubt.
It's far from it. There are Chukar hunters covering the same areas two or three times
a day on the weekends and the better areas covered once a day during the week. Plus
the area gets combed by horse back riders and 4 wheelers every weekend all summer.
How wild do you expect a wild horse to be. Remote, hardly.
That is incorrect information. Cattle can be grazed in the areas on the BLM in Idaho in the wild horse range but not domestic horses. If you are not in the wild horse range then
it's a different story.
In case you didn't notice there are many cross fences and cattle guards in this end of Owyhee county to divide up the grazing range. The wild horses are not free to roam
whereever they want to go. If someone did lose a horse here it would be a simple matter
to go find it. This would be considered a remote area for a person from Boise no doubt.
It's far from it. There are Chukar hunters covering the same areas two or three times
a day on the weekends and the better areas covered once a day during the week. Plus
the area gets combed by horse back riders and 4 wheelers every weekend all summer.
How wild do you expect a wild horse to be. Remote, hardly.