Live and Drive Safe with Wild Horses

The rescue team is always on call for emergencies small and large!

For this month’s Pinto Post issue, LRTC’s Technical Large Animal Rescue team joins with Wild Horse Connection’s Range Management team, and all the other hard working local organization groups listed on the front of this newsletter, to bring you some safety tips on and around the Virginia Range. While the laws and tips apply to all areas of the Virginia Range, the City of Reno has also joined and is providing public safety announcements sharing these tips. Thank you, City of Reno!

The Nevada Department of Transportation has completed fencing along Highway 50 from the east end of Dayton to the turn off to SR341 in Mound House. Two areas are still open, but additional lighting has been installed increasing visibility in those unfenced areas during night driving. But please still drive aware and cautious through these areas.

Late summer and fall we see horses coming into neighborhoods and crossing busy streets for an easier meal in yards or along streets in areas where there is no range fencing. Fencing projects in some areas are underway, but they take time so drive safe!

-Drive with caution and slow down in known wild horse areas, especially at night.
-It is illegal to feed the wild horses.
-Nevada is a fence out state - to keep horses or any range livestock off a property, an owner must fence their property.