All forms of public access and entry will be controlled within two miles of trap locations and public viewing areas according to the Decision Record, which was copied to the project folder in ePlanning with two other documents.
The exception is contractor personnel and observers escorted by BLM staff.
The incident, set to begin on September 9, will be carried out by Cattoor.
The capture and removal goals are 281 and 146 respectively.
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 capture total includes 82 stallions, 84 mares and 27 foals.
Youngsters represented 14.0% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 9% per year.
Of the adults, 49.4% were male and 50.6% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The contractor is Sampson and the contract amount is $235,536 according to a report at USA Spending.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
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 0.8%.
Productivity hit a new low on Day 27 with no horses captured.
The capture total included 343 stallions, 353 mares and 163 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.0% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
The advocates continue to lie about the reversibility of their favorite pesticide, evident in the public comments for the Stone Cabin EA. Refer to item 20 in Appendix K of the final planning documents.
The trend chart for the Maryland side of Assateague Island tells a different story.
If PZP was reversible, and the sperm-blocking theory was true, the herd should have quadrupled in the ten years since the darting program was shut off.
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 capture total includes 54 stallions, 53 mares and 18 foals.
Youngsters represented 14.4% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 50.5% were male and 49.5% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The contractor is Sampson and the contract amount is $235,536 according to a report at USA Spending.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
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 0.8%.
Productivity hit a new low on Day 25 with two horses captured.
The capture total includes 334 stallions, 349 mares and 161 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.1% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
The incident has not been announced but it’s on the schedule with a start date of September 15.
The contractor is Sampson and the contract amount is $198,732 according to a report at USA Spending.
The roundup will leave around 100 wild horses to repopulate the HMA, a necessary condition for genetic diversity.
The advocates want permanent change, to be achieved through permanent infertility, sometimes referred to as destroying the breeding population with PZP.
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.
On Day 22 a colt was found dead at temporary holding.
On Day 23, a stallion was dispatched for a neck injury that did not heal properly.
The death rate is 0.8%.
The capture total includes 331 stallions, 344 mares and 160 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.2% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
The agency states at its sales page that it does not sell or send any wild horses or burros to slaughter.
The FAQs indicate that the Bill of Sale includes language requiring purchasers to certify they will not knowingly, recklessly, or negligently sell or transfer a horse or burro purchased from the BLM to any individual or organization that intends to process the animal, or its remains, into commercial products, or to facilitate such processing.
Titles are not issued.
The agency does not track the animals after they are sold.
They are private property and no longer eligible for federal oversight or protection.
If an animal is found in a kill pen or otherwise demonstrated to have been sold to slaughter, the agency will assess whether the purchaser violated federal law and refer the matter to Law Enforcement.
At least in theory.
Sadly, nobody’s looking upstream in the management process and asking why the animals were removed from their lawful homes.
Nobody’s asking if there are other options for keeping them on the public lands.
Fertility control, a darling of the advocates, is a dead end, eventually leading to permanent infertility, loss of genetic diversity and herd collapse.
One thing is clear: Nothing will improve until the bureaucracies have been purged of ranchers and ranching sympathizers, top to bottom.
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 316 stallions, 335 mares and 157 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.4% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
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