Introduced by Nancy Mace in 2025, HR 2864 would direct the Secretary of the Interior to implement fertility controls to manage populations of wild horses and burros, and to encourage training opportunities for veterans to assist in management activities.

The bill was referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources but no action was taken.

Mace did not seek reelection this year in South Carolina’s 1st congressional district, choosing instead to run for governor, but did not get past the primary.

She will return to the private sector at the end of year.

The bill, if a sponsor can be found, will need to be resubmitted in the new Congress.

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The incident started on October 3 with 28 horses captured, 28 shipped, none released and no deaths.

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The incident started on October 25.  Results through November 2:

• 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: 24, up from 11 on Day 3
• Shipped: None
• Released: 5, up from 2 on Day 3
• Deaths: None
• Average daily take: 2.7
• Unaccounted-for animals: 19
• 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.

Although the traps may have been activated a few days earlier, Day 1 is defined as October 25, when the first horses were caught.

The capture total includes 3 stallions, 17 mares and 4 foals.

No information was given about the three horses released on Day 6.

Youngsters represented 16.7% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 15% were male and 85% 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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A start date was not given in the news release but the gather page says November 2.

The capture and removal goals are 140 each.

The target is horses.

The pre-gather population is thought to be 247.

A helicopter will push them 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 $86,849 for Swasey at a unit cost of $620.

Operations will be open to public observation on a limited basis.

The BLM will close public lands around the trap sites and holding pens.

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

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.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.

Whenever you see statements about more wild horses on the land than it can sustain, you should be skeptical.  In many cases the resources are there but your faithful public servants gave them to livestock.

PREVIOUS: BLM Closing Public Lands for Swasey Roundup.

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A new project has been opened in ePlanning and two documents have been uploaded.

Areas within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities will be closed to the public for the duration of the incident, with the exception of contractor personnel and observers escorted by BLM staff, according to the Decision Record.

The map of the closure areas was not provided.

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At the North Complex roundup with Monica Ross.

No mares were sterilized in the making of this video.  Recovery is expected.

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That’s because the dilution gene is creme, not cream.

Try running a search for the creme dilution gene.

Has all scientific integrity been lost?

Is AI a joke or what?

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A report by the Science and Conservation Center, a producer and distributor of PZP located on the grounds of ZooMontana, indicates that 93% of the doses shipped in 2025 were ordered for horses.

SCC’s partner organizations include many familiar names, some who participated in the 2026 pesticide roundtable.

A story by KTVQ News said the BLM has partnered with ZooMontana to implement PZP darting in the Pryor Mountain HMA.

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Eight horses were euthanized for blindness but only three are getting their attention.

They were dispatched on October 19 according to a story by Cowboy State Daily.

The condition is not life threatening.

They lived in the wild, survived the chase and didn’t crash into pipe panels breaking their necks.

So the real problem might be that they were deemed unadoptable and unworthy of transfer to off-range pastures, despite an offer by a sanctuary to take them.

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The incident concluded on October 29 with 1,035 horses captured, 1,018 shipped, none released and 17 dead.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

The death rate was 1.6%.  Sixteen deaths were intentional.

The capture total included 372 stallions, 435 mares and 228 foals.

Operations spanned 14 days and the average daily take was 73.9.

The roundup liberated 12,420 AUMs per year for other mandated uses of public lands.

That number will go down if some of the horses, treated with fertility control or not, are returned to the range.

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A new project has been opened in ePlanning and two documents have been uploaded.

Areas within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities will be closed to all public entry during the incident, with the exception of contractor personnel and observers escorted by BLM staff, according to the Decision Record.

The map on page 4 indicates that the entire HMA will be closed plus lands to the east and west.

The Swasey HMA, listed in the schedule with Cedar Mountain, was not mentioned.

That incident will begin a week earlier.

PREVIOUS: Swasey and Cedar Mountain Roundups Go to Cattoor.

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This chart shows what can happen after a genetic bottleneck, which occurs when wild horses are removed from an established herd.

Which path do the advocates prefer?

Consider the opinion piece in PJ Media, co-authored by the executive director of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, that Google censored.

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

“[R]eforms must mandate comprehensive fertility management alongside every future gather and establish a clear timeline to phase out roundups altogether.”

They don’t want the high road to recovery.

They want the low load to extinction, to be achieved with never-ending fertility control.

They are enemies of the horses and servants of the ranchers.

Don’t give them a penny.

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The purpose of the RFI is to identify suppliers that can meet the requirement of services within one hour as specified in the Performance Work Statement.

The place of performance is the Double Devil Wild Horse and Burro Corrals, seven miles northwest of Alturas, CA in the Modoc NF.

The Forest Service does not intend to award a contract on the basis of the RFI or to pay for the information solicited.

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The Ninth Circuit ruled that gather plans for the Little Fish Lake JMA and Stone Cabin Complex complied with the immediacy requirement of the WHB Act according to an opinion filed today.

The panel noted that the Act requires the BLM to promulgate gather plans that remove excess animals as promptly as logistically and reasonably possible but grants the agency significant latitude to determine what is logistically and reasonably possible, concluding that neither of the plans ran afoul of that provision.

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The jobs, associated with off-range holding facilities, are not open to the public.

There are two vacancies at Litchfield, two at Ridgecrest and one at Boise.

Pay ranges from $26.46 to $34.94 per hour.

Applications are due by November 12.

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The incident started on October 25.  Results through October 27:

• 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: 11, up from 3 on Day 1
• Shipped: None
• Released: 2, up from zero on Day 1
• Deaths: None
• Average daily take: 3.7
• Unaccounted-for animals: 9
• 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 traps may have been activated on October 20 but no horses were caught until October 25, referred to above as Day 1.

The capture total includes 2 stallions, 7 mares and 2 foals.

The stallions were released on Day 2.

Youngsters represented 18.2% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 22.2% were male and 77.8% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

A map at the gather page shows trap sites and closure areas.

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.

PREVIOUS: Pryor Roundup in Progress.

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These positions are not open to the public:

• Supervisory Wild Horse and Burro Coordinator
• Wild Horse and Burro Specialist (Fertility)
• Wild Horse and Burro Specialist (COR)

If the fertility specialist must lie about the long-term effects of the pesticides, an advocate might be the best choice.

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