Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The death rate is 0.5%.
The capture total includes 137 stallions, 155 mares and 78 foals.
Youngsters represented 21.1% of the animals gathered, a sign of genetic diversity and large enough to support a herd growth rate of 15% per year.
Of the adults, 46.9% were male and 53.1% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio (usually found in herds where the advocates are involved).
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.
If you wanted to raise money for your rescue, and show the public that you care about wild horses, would you partner with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses?
Barbara Phillips did.
The founder of Saving Gracie Equine Healing Foundation joined forces with Patricia Miller, executive director of CAAWH, for a weekend fundraiser according to a story by The Park Record.
Miller said the wild horse issue in the United States boils down to population control.
Forget about habitat loss, lopsided forage allocations and manipulation by ranching interests.
It’s now evident that Miller is Suzanne Roy’s ideological progeny and that the nonprofit is headed down the same destructive path as it did under Roy’s leadership.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The death rate is 1.6%.
The capture total includes 45 stallions, 60 mares and 21 foals.
Youngsters represented 16.7% of the animals gathered, too low to support a herd growth rate of 15 to 20 percent per year.
Of the adults, 42.9% were male and 57.1% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
Forage: 1,512 AUMs per year
Water: 1,260 gallons per day
Public lands within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities are closed to the public, with the exception of observers escorted by BLM staff.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The death rate is 0.6%.
The capture total includes 116 stallions, 130 mares and 68 foals.
Youngsters represented 21.7% of the animals gathered, a sign of genetic diversity and large enough to support a herd growth rate of fifteen to twenty percent per year.
Of the adults, 47.2% were male and 52.8% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio (usually found in herds where the advocates are involved).
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
Two horses died on Day 3, one was accidental and the other was intentional.
The death rate is 2.7%.
The capture total includes 30 stallions, 33 mares and 10 foals.
Youngsters represented 13.7% of the animals gathered, too low to support a herd growth rate of 15 to 20 percent per year.
Of the adults, 47.6% were male and 52.4% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
Forage: 876 AUMs per year
Water: 730 gallons per day
Public lands within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities are closed to the public, with the exception of observers escorted by BLM staff.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
Operations were delayed for two weeks due to problems with the helicopter.
The death rate is 0.7%.
The capture total includes 103 stallions, 116 mares and 58 foals.
Youngsters represented 20.9% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 47.0% were male and 53.0% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not more horses than the land can support.
Your faithful public servants typically assign 80% of the authorized forage to privately owned livestock, so the population targets for wild horses are low relative to the available resources.
Telling the truth—that they’re getting rid of the horses to help the ranchers, who pay almost nothing for the forage they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government—might shift public opinion.
Protection is a codeword for wild horse removal, by long-term use of ovary-killing pesticides (preferred by the advocates) or by motorized equipment (preferred by hunters, ranchers and bureaucrats).
The difference is recovery: Helicopters don’t sterilize mares, destroy breeding populations and eliminate genetic mixing.
Are you surprised that the advocates favor the greater of two evils?
The contractor is Cattoor and the contract amount is $287,650.
The unit cost is $959 per animal captured, at the high end of the pay scale.
The area will be closed to the public except for observers escorted by BLM staff.
Captured animals will be taken to the Sutherland off-range corrals.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.
Which option sterilizes the mares, destroys the breeding populations and stops genetic mixing? Which one do the advocates prefer? Hint: It’s a dead end for wild horses.
Why aren’t there any buttons for
Managing HMAs principally for wild horses
Restoring HAs and managing them principally for wild horses
Purging the bureaucracies of ranchers and ranching sympathizers
Purging the advocacy groups of ranchers and ranching sympathizers
Zeroing out allotments and converting them to wild horse preserves
Purchasing base properties and flipping the preference to wild horses
Stop listening to the broken record. The advocates have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.