Wild Horse Acres, with it's majestic solitude, is one of the last remaining beautifully rustic historic landmark areas which hasn't been commercially developed yet. Dramatically missing from this large tract of land is humanity. Although right off a major year around highway, when one looks around Wild Horse Acres, there is not a house to be seen. Wild Horse Acres is devoid of housing not because it looks like a dry wasteland, oh no, it is because the United States Government worked hard to keep this land available for wild horses.

Then things changed. Power came by. Not just limited residential electric power either. Real heavy duty, run a whole city type electric power came by. Circumstances change and along comes reality and idealism fades away to profits. It turns out, Los Vegas had power rights from the mighty Hover Dam. Reno, the Biggest Little City, was down line in the ability to use the Hover Dam's power. Power is like water, it moves down a line. When power is used, converted, whatever you want to call it, before it gets down the line, less power is available at the end of the line. In effect, Reno was being starved of electric power by Los Vegas. For economic reasons Reno being a competitor of Los Vegas and out growing its power requirements, looked elsewhere for electric power. The closest power available was in Oregon and Washington States where there is a large amount of hydroelectric power and not many customers. To obtain this power, a power transmission line had to be erected.

It was people in large cities who elected to protect the wild horses, not the local farmers. People in a large city decided they needed more electric power. When it comes to protecting the wild horse, or not getting enough electric power to feed a large city, the wild horses lose.

In order to build Sierra Pacific's Alturas Electric Power Transmission Line and take the poor old farmer's land using eminent domain in the State of California to benefit the biggest little city in Nevada, zoning and regulations had to change. When protecting the environment for wild horses, zoning regulations were enacted which made it difficult for people to build on their land in the area. As a result, the area was devoid of people and those people who did migrate to the area didn't have enough money or legislative clout to say any thing about it. As the government owns 1.2 million acres in the area, there isn't much land left for people, so there are not many people. Susanville, population few, is the largest city by far in this huge California county. No money, no population, no clout, no say, that's the way it is. When convenient, and without regard to the wild horses, people living in the area, or much else, regulations were changed and now there is major power lines right down the center of Wild Horse Acres.

Major power lines run right through Wild Horse Acres. Zoning allows Wild Horse Acres to be used for a hydroelectric generating plant, or something more elaborate as a Tire Incineration and Steam Electric Generating Power Plant. For any company which requires high power-low profile Wild Horse Acres is the right place.