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VRWPA
HISTORICAL PROJECTS
Since 1979
VRWPA volunteers have:
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Starting in the
middle 1980's and into the early 1990's Legislative sessions, worked with
Speaker Joe Dini, and Storey County Commissioners, to lobby the Legislature to
enact laws allowing for local control of our estray horses. This effort
ultimately resulted in the 1994 Cooperative Agreement that allows for county
management of the adoption program in place today.
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Conducted seminars on
the Hantavirus
·
Provided Weed Control
for the
Highlands
called "the War on Whitetop".
·
Helped save the BLM
pond in the
Highlands
from developers and made improvements as required by the BLM
(installed a bench and sign at the pond for wildlife viewing)
·
Provided the money
and labor for feed-trapping nuisance horses including, holding horses for 30
days before releasing them back to their native habitat or processing for
Storey
County
adoption program. (VRWPA has been
designated first response for handling sick or injured horse calls county wide.
This includes Lockwood, Mark Twain,
Virginia City
, Gold Hill, and the
Highlands
. VRWPA has purchased the necessary
equipment to perform duties of trapping (panels $2500), transporting (trailer
$1000), holding, and feeding picked up horses (per day $4) and pays for
veterinary care of sick, injured, orphaned and displaced horses, necropsies
(autopsies), and carcass disposal (thousands of dollars).
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Paid for
County
Fencing
($3500) and the Cattle Guard
($1000) for Lockwood.
·
Set up, managed and
paid for an emergency winter feeding program ($18,000 for year 2000).
· Found appropriate
adoptive homes for many of the captured horses. This includes: Pre-inspection of
facilities the horses will go to, and continuing follow-up until the adopter
receives a full title at the end of the a year (approx. 40 man hours per month)
·
Repossessed and
provided foster care of horses that for various reasons have been given or taken
back prior to title transfer and started over to find a new home.
·
Developed and
maintained ALL Adoption paper work for Storey County Wild Horse Control
including quarterly reports to State (approx. 40 man hours per month)
·
Monitor the range for
accident and illness that could affect the whole herd (approx. 10 man hours per
month)
·
Paid our share
($5000) and
Storey
County
's ($2500) of the total $10,000 for
the habitat capacity analysis done by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service.
·
Provided money for
corral panels to start the prison gentling program ($6500).
·
Coordinated tax
receipts for donations for equipments and supplies. Asked to administer the
scholarship fund for inmates selected for the gentling program.
·
VRWPA donated
monetary contributions to Raven for the flights they performed during the horse
counts and slaughter investigation ($5000)
·
Coordinated and
continue to administer, at the Sheriff 's Department's request, the $35,000
Reward Fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s)
responsible for the horses shot, December 1998, in northern Storey County.
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