The incident began on March 9, a resource enforcement action that follows a wild burro removal in 2020. Gather stats through June 27:
- Burros captured: 209
- Goal: 500
- Returned: 0
- Deaths: 0
- Shipped: 154
Foals accounted for 15.3% of the burros gathered. Of the adults, 61% were male and 39% were female, barely inside the expected range of variation produced by a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females (p-bar = .5 and n = 209).
Fertility controls will not be applied this year and the incident is not open to public observation.
The number of burros in the unaccounted-for category is 55.
Data quality is good.
Some supplemental statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 1,254 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 1,045 gallons per day
- Burros displaced from HMA by privately owned livestock: 1,222
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