The incident started on October 25.  Results through November 12:

• FY: 2027
• Scope: Pryor Mountain HMA
• Target: Horses
• AML: 120
• Pre-gather population: 187
• Type: Planned
• Contractor: None (BLM staff)
• Contract amount: N/A
• Unit cost: N/A
• Method: Bait
• Capture goal: 100
• Removal goal: 37
• Captured: 38, up from 24 on Day 9
• Shipped: None
• Released: 8, up from 5 on Day 9
• Deaths: None
• Average daily take: 2.0
• Unaccounted-for animals: 30
• 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.

There was no report for Day 13.

The sidebar at the gather page says 36 captured.

The capture total includes 10 stallions, 23 mares and 5 foals.  The sidebar says 9/22/5.

No information was given about the horses released.

Youngsters represented 13.2% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 30.3% were male and 69.7% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

Up to 43 mares will be treated with fertility control and released, prolonging the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.

The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing but is adjacent to BLM and FS allotments.

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Story by KX News.

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Comments in the Clan Alpine Final DNA suggest that the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses drafted a form letter for its brainwashed followers to use in the review of the Draft DNA.

Comments 13 and 14 likely contain a substantial portion of the letter, which includes the following paragraph:

American Wild Horse Conservation advocates for a comprehensive program using humane, reversible immunocontraceptive fertility control, such as PZP.  A meaningful plan should identify how many mares will be treated, how follow-up treatments will be delivered, and how results will be monitored to reduce population growth and the need for future removals.

“Meaningful plan” appears 41 times in the document.

Comment 4, referring to motorized removal, noted that each roundup sends more animals into off range holding at ongoing public cost, and without fertility control, the population rebuilds and the cycle repeats—which is how nature tries to undo the genetic bottlenecks created by removal.

They don’t want recovery.

They don’t want genetic vigor.

The only thing they’re trying to conserve is forage for their allies, the public lands ranchers.

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The incident started on November 10.  Results through November 12:

• FY: 2027
• Scope: Cedar Mountain HMA
• Target: Horses
• AML: 390
• Pre-gather population: 660
• Type: Planned
• Contractor: Cattoor
• Contract amount: $310,176 (estimated)
• Unit cost: $620
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP, pray for older horses to die (per advocates)
• Capture goal: 500
• Removal goal: 500
• Captured: 160, up from 67 on Day 1
• Shipped: 82, up from zero on Day 1
• Released: None
• Deaths: None
• Average daily take: 53.3
• Unaccounted-for animals: 78
• 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 50 stallions, 79 mares and 31 foals.

Youngsters represented 19.4% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 38.8% were male and 61.2% 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 and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck or make it permanent.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.  Resources liberated to date:

• Forage: 1,920 AUMs per year
• Water: 1,600 gallons per day

Public lands within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities will be closed to the public for the duration of the roundup.

PREVIOUS: Cedar Mountain Roundup Begins.

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The news release said the changes would affect permit issuance, eligibility and fees.

Other changes align with BLM regulations to better support permittees who use lands managed by both agencies.

The proposal appeared today in the Federal Register.

Comments are due by December 14.

An AUM would be defined as a month’s use of forage and occupancy of rangeland by one cow, bull, steer, heifer, bison, horse (ancillary to livestock production), burro, or mule, or five sheep or goats.

There are no plans to establish a rangeland information system similar to BLM’s RAS.

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A new strategic plan for the Department of the Interior, covering FY26 through FY30, includes a provision for decreasing the size of the federal estate by offering to states, localities and Tribes the opportunity to purchase federal lands.

Refer to the last paragraph under Objective 4.2 (page 24 in the pdf).

A story by The Hill said the department did not respond to questions about selling public lands.

The plan was posted to the DOI Strategic Planning website.

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Four documents were added to the project folder yesterday.

The DNA asserts that a 2023 EA fully covers the Proposed Action, which is to remove excess horses and apply fertility control to returned mares, and constitutes the agency’s compliance with the requirements of NEPA.

A roundup is on the schedule with a start date of December 1.

Would the EA cover removal of wild horses from a different HMA?

How would a contractor know if a horse in the Clan Alpine Allotment is from the Clan Alpine HMA and not Desatoya or New Pass-Ravenswood?

PREVIOUS: Clan Alpine DNA Out for Review.

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The new solicitation was limited to one supplier according to the justification document.

The incumbent, who was hired in 2020, has been the only contractor capable of meeting the one-hour requirement.

The requisition applies to wild horses and burros captured on federal lands and shipped to the Double Devil corrals near Alturas, CA.

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The update, published in the Federal Register, would revise part 1600, including subparts 1601 and 1610, and establish a new subpart at 1611.

A new section 1610.10 would specify that land use plans consist of (1) desired resource use and condition objectives, (2) designations identified by statute, regulation or national policy of lands for exclusive purposes, such as areas of critical environmental concern or herd management areas, (3) lands allocated for allowable uses, and (4) management direction needed to achieve the resource use and condition objectives.

There are no requirements for elucidation of resource allocations in areas identified for wild horses and burros, including the rationale and statutory warrant therefor.

No language was added that would curtail the influence of special interests and remove insiders devoted thereto.

Comments are due by January 11.

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The incident started on November 10 with 67 horses captured, none shipped, none released and no deasths.

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A start date was not given in the news release but the gather page says November 10.

The capture and removal goals are 500 each.

The target is horses.

The pre-gather population is thought to be 660.

The management plan allows 390, plus an unspecified number of livestock.

A helicopter will push the horses into the traps.

The contractor is Cattoor.

The contract amount is $397,025 but that covers 640 horses at Swasey and Cedar Mountain.  Proration gives $310,176 for Cedar Mountain at a unit cost of $620.

Public lands near trap sites and holding pens are off limits except for observers escorted by BLM staff.

Animals identified for removal will be taken to the Sutherland and Axtell off-range corrals.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.

There are no plans to treat the mares with fertility control and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.

This is a huge disappointment to the advocates, who want the herd subdued with PZP.

Without on-range fertility management, herd populations will quickly recover, triggering another gather in just a few short years.

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Angelique Rea documents the genetic bottleneck at Green Mountain HMA.

The self-anointed thought leaders of the wild horse world want the diminished herd to stay that way, through never-ending application fertility control.

Give them the boot on Giving Tuesday.

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The incident concluded on November 8 with 124 horses captured, 122 shipped, none released and two dead.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

Operations began on November 3 and the average daily take was 20.7.

The death rate was 1.6%.

The capture total included 49 stallions, 57 mares and 18 foals.

The roundup liberated 1,488 AUMs per year for other mandated uses of public lands.

There were no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control and return them to the range, a huge disappointment to the advocates.

They want comprehensive fertility management alongside every gather with a clear timeline to eliminate roundups according to an October 27 opinion piece in PJ Media.

Recovery is not an option.

RELATED: Swasey Roundup Announced.

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Attorneys for the state of Montana have asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a district court’s ruling that allowed American Prairie’s bison to stay on public lands after the BLM cancelled their grazing permits.

The state claims that federal grazing permits are limited to domestic livestock raised for production according to a report by KRTV News, an excuse manufactured by ranching interests who see the arrangement as a threat to their hegemony.

They’re also backing a plan by the BLM to insert “production-oriented livestock” into the grazing regulations in an attempt to preclude the use of grazing allotments for conservation purposes, such as wild horse preserves.

The proposal now stands on shaky ground.

An attorney for American Prairie stated in a September 4 news release that “The court’s ruling recognizes what American Prairie has argued from the beginning, that the Taylor Grazing Act does not require a grazing operation to focus exclusively on production and ignore conservation or restoration.”

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The incident started on November 3.  Results through November 7:

• FY: 2027
• Scope: Swasey HMA
• Target: Horses
• AML: 100
• Pre-gather population: 247
• Type: Planned
• Contractor: Cattoor
• Contract amount: $86,849 (estimated)
• Unit cost: $620
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP, pray for older horses to die (per advocates)
• Capture goal: 140
• Removal goal: 140
• Captured: 109, up from 64 on Day 3
• Shipped: 107, up from 64 on Day 3
• Released: None
• Deaths: 2, up from zero on Day 3
• Average daily take: 21.8
• Unaccounted-for animals: None
• 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.

A mare was euthanized for an abscess on Day 4.

A colt crashed into a pipe panel on Day 5, breaking his neck.

The death rate is 1.8%.

The capture total includes 42 stallions, 51 mares and 16 foals.

Youngsters represented 14.7% of the animals gathered, too low to sustain a herd growth rate of 15-20% per year.

Of the adults, 45.2% were male and 54.8% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap 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: 1,308 AUMs per year
• Water: 1,090 gallons per day

Public lands within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities will be closed to the public for the duration of the roundup.

PREVIOUS: Swasey Roundup, Day 3.

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