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Release records
05-03-1991 Released to ORO10, Kiger HMA
Dun '86 Stallion "Kiger horse" {no origin listed}
Dun '88 Mare "Teacup""Chaquita" FY'88 Sheepshead H.H.A (ORO16)
Release records
06-24-94 Released to ORO10, Kiger HMA
Dun '88 Mare "Chaquita"/"Teacup"
Dun '94 Filly "Tequilla" "Chaquita's baby" "Foal born in Corral-Burns"
Riddle Mountain & Kiger Horse Herd Management Area Plan Evaluations
Dated 2-28-95, Prepared by Dean Bolsted
Past Management- Riddle Mountain
"Initially the herd was of the common saddle type of horse of mixed colors. Beginning in 1977 the conversion of this herd with Spanish Mustang characteristics began with the introduction of 3 dun studs, 1 blue roan mare, 1 claybank mare and 1 grulla filly colt from the Beatty Buttes area of the Lakeview District. The Riddle Mountain herd was converted to the dun factor Spanish Mustang type of horse primarily in 1987, 1989, and 1993 when horses from the Kiger HMA were introduced to replace horses removed from the HMA.
Past Management- Kiger
"The original herds of East Kiger and Smyth Creek HMAs were saddle type horses and of mixed colors. Management of the Spanish Mustang type of horse began in 1974 when most of the East Kiger herd was gathered. Twenty-one of these horses were returned to the HMA. Some of these horses had dorsal stripes."
"In 1977 the entire East Kiger herd of 34 horses were removed. A brown mare and a blue roan from this group of horses were returned to the HMA. Twenty other horses from the Beatty Butte area of the Lakeview District were also released into the HMA. All of these horses had strong Spanish Mustang characteristics. Except for the roan mare these horses were either dun or grulla with dorsal stripes and zebra stripes on the legs. These horses were the base herd from which today's Kiger and Riddle Mountain horses originated."
"Horses in the Smyth Creek HMA were converted to the dun factor Spanish Mustang type of horse in 1983 and 1987 when horses from the East Kiger were released to replace gathered horses from Smyth Creek.
Wild Horse Objectives
Action 2.2 Designate 64, 639 acres of the Kiger and Riddle Mountain HMAs as an ACEC for the Kiger Mustang.
Action 2.3 Select for high quality horses when gathered horses are returned to the range.
Kiger/Riddle Mtn HMAs:
" Manage for Spanish Mustang type horse that are dun, red dun, grulla, buckskin (clay bank) and variations of these colors. Dorsal stripes are desirable and horses are to be 13-15 hands weighing 750 to 1000 pounds.
Action 3.1 Limit any releases of wild horses or burros into an HMA to individuals which exhibit the characteristics designated for that HMA.
ACEC Management Action 1.7 Designate the Kiger and Riddle HMAs of 64, 639 acres as the Kiger Mustangs ACEC for unique characteristics of wild horses.
"The primary management goal of the Kiger Mustang ACEC is to perpetuate and protect the dun factor color, primitive characteristics, and conformation typical of the Spanish Mustang type of wild horses now present in the Kiger and Riddle Mountain HMAs. A special management plan will be written and will be comprehensive in nature and reflect the allowable uses/use constraints along with procedures and monitoring mentioned in the RMP's wild horse decisions."
History of Planning for Horse Numbers
Riddle
1975 80 to 120 horses
1987 33 to 56 horses*
1992 33 to 56 horses
*Riddle numbers reduced due to public lands in HMA being exchanged to State of Oregon
East Kiger HMA
1974 20 to 30 horses
1987 East Kiger HMA combined with Smyth Creek to form the Kiger HMA
Smyth Creek HMA
1975 30 to 50 horses
1987 Smyth Creek HMA combined with East Kiger to form the Kiger HMA
Kiger HMA
1987 51 to 82 horses*
1992 51 to 82 horses
*numbers of wild horses in all Burns District HMAs were increased in 1987 to mitigate horse reductions in the Riddle Mountain HMA.
Horse Census & Horses Removed
01/31/86 32 horses removed
07/26/86 179 horses removed
10/16/86 (94 horses inventoried)
09/04/87 90 horses removed
09/04/87 (33 horses inventoried)
10/14/87 1 horse removed
10/14/89 63 horses removed
09/03/93 (85 horses inventoried)
08/17/93 (91 horses inventoried)
09/14/93 56 horses removed
10/01/93 33 horses inventoried
Kiger
06/16/86 (109 horses inventoried)
10/21/86 (78 horses inventoried)
10/21/87 40 horses removed
10/21/87 (42 horses inventoried)
02/25/88 (62 horses inventoried)
09/14/88 (71 horses inventoried)
06/21/89 (80 horses inventoried)
10/05/89 49 horses removed
11/08/89 (51 horses inventoried)
09/04/92 (100 horses inventoried)
08/17/93 (122 horses inventoried)
09/17/93 74 horses removed
10/01/93 (51 horses inventoried)
Present Situation
"Most horses in the Riddle Mountain and Kiger HMAs were gathered in September 1993. Horses displaying the best Spanish Mustang characteristics were returned to the range in both HMAs. In October, 1993, fifty one horses existed in the Kiger HMA and 33 horses existed in the Riddle Mountain HMA. Horse numbers after the 1995 foal crop are estimated to be 66 horses in the Kiger HMA and 48 horses in the Riddle Mountain HMA."
"Horses in both HMAs are characteristically Spanish mustang type horses with the exception of several in the Riddle Mountain HMA that were not gathered in 1993. These herds are primarily duns, some are grullas, and several are clay bank. Approximately, 25% of these animals display stripes on the legs and other primitive markings, and almost all have dorsal stripes."
"The objective of selecting and returning high quality Spanish Mustang type horses to the range after gathering has been aggressively pursued and accomplished."
Recommendations
"3. Continue aggressive management actions to maintain and preserve the gene pool of Spanish Mustang characteristic horses in the Riddle and Kiger HMAs.
Kiger Mustang Area of Critical Environmental Concern Management Plan, dated 3-5-1996
See the ACEC on the web. Right hand side of page. www.kigerhorse.org/96BLMManagementPlan.html
Riddle Mountain and Kiger Wild Horse Herd Management Area Plan, dated 02-21-1996
See the '96 HMAP on web. Left hand side of page
www.kigerhorse.org/96BLMManagementPlan.html
05-03-1991 Released to ORO10, Kiger HMA
Dun '86 Stallion "Kiger horse" {no origin listed}
Dun '88 Mare "Teacup""Chaquita" FY'88 Sheepshead H.H.A (ORO16)
Release records
06-24-94 Released to ORO10, Kiger HMA
Dun '88 Mare "Chaquita"/"Teacup"
Dun '94 Filly "Tequilla" "Chaquita's baby" "Foal born in Corral-Burns"
Riddle Mountain & Kiger Horse Herd Management Area Plan Evaluations
Dated 2-28-95, Prepared by Dean Bolsted
Past Management- Riddle Mountain
"Initially the herd was of the common saddle type of horse of mixed colors. Beginning in 1977 the conversion of this herd with Spanish Mustang characteristics began with the introduction of 3 dun studs, 1 blue roan mare, 1 claybank mare and 1 grulla filly colt from the Beatty Buttes area of the Lakeview District. The Riddle Mountain herd was converted to the dun factor Spanish Mustang type of horse primarily in 1987, 1989, and 1993 when horses from the Kiger HMA were introduced to replace horses removed from the HMA.
Past Management- Kiger
"The original herds of East Kiger and Smyth Creek HMAs were saddle type horses and of mixed colors. Management of the Spanish Mustang type of horse began in 1974 when most of the East Kiger herd was gathered. Twenty-one of these horses were returned to the HMA. Some of these horses had dorsal stripes."
"In 1977 the entire East Kiger herd of 34 horses were removed. A brown mare and a blue roan from this group of horses were returned to the HMA. Twenty other horses from the Beatty Butte area of the Lakeview District were also released into the HMA. All of these horses had strong Spanish Mustang characteristics. Except for the roan mare these horses were either dun or grulla with dorsal stripes and zebra stripes on the legs. These horses were the base herd from which today's Kiger and Riddle Mountain horses originated."
"Horses in the Smyth Creek HMA were converted to the dun factor Spanish Mustang type of horse in 1983 and 1987 when horses from the East Kiger were released to replace gathered horses from Smyth Creek.
Wild Horse Objectives
Action 2.2 Designate 64, 639 acres of the Kiger and Riddle Mountain HMAs as an ACEC for the Kiger Mustang.
Action 2.3 Select for high quality horses when gathered horses are returned to the range.
Kiger/Riddle Mtn HMAs:
" Manage for Spanish Mustang type horse that are dun, red dun, grulla, buckskin (clay bank) and variations of these colors. Dorsal stripes are desirable and horses are to be 13-15 hands weighing 750 to 1000 pounds.
Action 3.1 Limit any releases of wild horses or burros into an HMA to individuals which exhibit the characteristics designated for that HMA.
ACEC Management Action 1.7 Designate the Kiger and Riddle HMAs of 64, 639 acres as the Kiger Mustangs ACEC for unique characteristics of wild horses.
"The primary management goal of the Kiger Mustang ACEC is to perpetuate and protect the dun factor color, primitive characteristics, and conformation typical of the Spanish Mustang type of wild horses now present in the Kiger and Riddle Mountain HMAs. A special management plan will be written and will be comprehensive in nature and reflect the allowable uses/use constraints along with procedures and monitoring mentioned in the RMP's wild horse decisions."
History of Planning for Horse Numbers
Riddle
1975 80 to 120 horses
1987 33 to 56 horses*
1992 33 to 56 horses
*Riddle numbers reduced due to public lands in HMA being exchanged to State of Oregon
East Kiger HMA
1974 20 to 30 horses
1987 East Kiger HMA combined with Smyth Creek to form the Kiger HMA
Smyth Creek HMA
1975 30 to 50 horses
1987 Smyth Creek HMA combined with East Kiger to form the Kiger HMA
Kiger HMA
1987 51 to 82 horses*
1992 51 to 82 horses
*numbers of wild horses in all Burns District HMAs were increased in 1987 to mitigate horse reductions in the Riddle Mountain HMA.
Horse Census & Horses Removed
01/31/86 32 horses removed
07/26/86 179 horses removed
10/16/86 (94 horses inventoried)
09/04/87 90 horses removed
09/04/87 (33 horses inventoried)
10/14/87 1 horse removed
10/14/89 63 horses removed
09/03/93 (85 horses inventoried)
08/17/93 (91 horses inventoried)
09/14/93 56 horses removed
10/01/93 33 horses inventoried
Kiger
06/16/86 (109 horses inventoried)
10/21/86 (78 horses inventoried)
10/21/87 40 horses removed
10/21/87 (42 horses inventoried)
02/25/88 (62 horses inventoried)
09/14/88 (71 horses inventoried)
06/21/89 (80 horses inventoried)
10/05/89 49 horses removed
11/08/89 (51 horses inventoried)
09/04/92 (100 horses inventoried)
08/17/93 (122 horses inventoried)
09/17/93 74 horses removed
10/01/93 (51 horses inventoried)
Present Situation
"Most horses in the Riddle Mountain and Kiger HMAs were gathered in September 1993. Horses displaying the best Spanish Mustang characteristics were returned to the range in both HMAs. In October, 1993, fifty one horses existed in the Kiger HMA and 33 horses existed in the Riddle Mountain HMA. Horse numbers after the 1995 foal crop are estimated to be 66 horses in the Kiger HMA and 48 horses in the Riddle Mountain HMA."
"Horses in both HMAs are characteristically Spanish mustang type horses with the exception of several in the Riddle Mountain HMA that were not gathered in 1993. These herds are primarily duns, some are grullas, and several are clay bank. Approximately, 25% of these animals display stripes on the legs and other primitive markings, and almost all have dorsal stripes."
"The objective of selecting and returning high quality Spanish Mustang type horses to the range after gathering has been aggressively pursued and accomplished."
Recommendations
"3. Continue aggressive management actions to maintain and preserve the gene pool of Spanish Mustang characteristic horses in the Riddle and Kiger HMAs.
Kiger Mustang Area of Critical Environmental Concern Management Plan, dated 3-5-1996
See the ACEC on the web. Right hand side of page. www.kigerhorse.org/96BLMManagementPlan.html
Riddle Mountain and Kiger Wild Horse Herd Management Area Plan, dated 02-21-1996
See the '96 HMAP on web. Left hand side of page
www.kigerhorse.org/96BLMManagementPlan.html
