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.
Three horses were euthanized on Day 18 for preexisting conditions.
The death rate is 0.9%.
The capture total includes 268 stallions, 322 mares and 157 foals.
Youngsters represented 21.0% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 16% per year.
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 0.7%.
The capture total includes 302 stallions, 318 mares and 149 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.4% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
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 241 stallions, 277 mares and 132 foals.
Youngsters represented 20.3% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 15% per year.
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 0.7%.
The capture total includes 284 stallions, 301 mares and 142 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.5% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
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%.
The capture total includes 191 stallions, 219 mares and 105 foals.
Youngsters represented 20.4% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 15% per year.
Of the adults, 46.6% were male and 53.4% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
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 0.7%.
The capture total includes 270 stallions, 278 mares and 132 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.4% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
Of the adults, 49.3% were male and 50.7% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
Despite that, the allotment offers 15,077 active AUMs on 239,802 public acres, equivalent to 5.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.
That includes the area that can’t support any wild horses.
If conditions improved and the suspended AUMs moved back into the active column, the allotment would support livestock equivalent to 9.9 wild horses per thousand public acres—almost ten times higher than the target stocking rate across all HMAs of one wild horse per thousand public acres.
This is another example of double standard in resource management on America’s public lands.
Like the advocates, your faithful public servants aren’t playing for the home team.
Who said they don’t have a credibility problem?
Would the allotment make a good wild horse preserve?
It overlaps an area already identified for wild horses, which is a showstopper.
Numerous authorizations are attached, so you’d have to buy multiple base properties to access all of the AUMs.
Probably not a good investment.
The bureaucrats, who never have to face the voters, are trying to change the grazing rules to stop the conversion of allotments into wild animal preserves, not because it’s illegal but because the ranchers, especially the crybabies in Montana, don’t like the idea.
The proposal should not be taken as a barrier to your conservation project.
The victims were Eddie and Shari Floyd of Hallelujah Junction according to a report in the Elko Daily Free Press.
They were in the process of evacuating but turned back to retrieve medications in their home.
While trying to escape their vehicle was engulfed.
They were airlifted to UC Davis Medical Center near Sacramento.
Floyd was known for emceeing the Mustang Matters radio program in Reno, among other things.
He’s wearing a baseball cap in the episode below.
In 2012 Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund rescued about 150 mustangs that had been removed from the Virginia Range and took them to Floyd’s Wynema Ranch, named after his mother.
In 2017 Hidden Valley partnered with Equine Legacy Ranch to move the horses to a sanctuary on 650 acres as tensions with the Floyds began to escalate.
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 horse was euthanized on Day 13 for a preexisting condition. No details were given.
The death rate is 0.9%.
The capture total includes 151 stallions, 184 mares and 92 foals.
Youngsters represented 21.5% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 16% per year.
Of the adults, 45.1% were male and 54.9% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
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 colt was euthanized on Day 13 for a preexisting condition.
The death rate is 0.8%.
The capture total includes 250 stallions, 255 mares and 122 foals.
Youngsters represented 19.5% of the animals gathered, enough to support a herd growth rate of 14% per year.
Of the adults, 49.5% were male and 50.5% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
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