Glenns Ferry, Idaho (KMVT) - It’s been more than a week since the Long Butte Fire started just south of Glenns Ferry, and burned more than 300,000 acres, all the way to Hagerman.

It also burned around 90,000 acres of the Saylor Creek Wild Horse Herd's Management Area that prompted Bureau of Land Management officials to act quickly to move the wild horses to a new location.

Nearly 200 wild horses call the Owyhee desert home; Evelyn Simon and her husband have been watching the Saylor Creek Wild Horse Herd for 20 years.

Evelyn says, "Then you hear the neighing and you can see the stallions fighting, it’s just amazing."

But that has all changed, and it could be some time before the herd returns to their home because of the Long Butte blaze.

According to Cody Martin with the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Management Team, "There’s only a few remaining islands of vegetation left, and it not sufficient enough to support them."

Bureau of Land Management officials decided it was necessary to round up the herd with a helicopter as quick as possible after 100 percent of their feeding grounds burned.

BLM Spokesperson Heather Tiel-Nelson says, "We moved very fast on this, the emergency being there simply is not enough forage out here."

This wasn't the first move for the Saylor Creek Herd, they had to removed in 2005 because of another fire; the herd will call the BLM Stock Yard in bodies home until their grazing land recovers from the fire. Mean time those who watch and admired the horse wait for their return.