The incident began on September 26, according to the gather page.
As of today, four horses have been trapped and four have been shipped.
The capture and removal goals are 200 each.
The pre-gather population was thought to be around 230.
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The facility remains closed due to a strangles outbreak, according to a report posted today by Cowboy State Daily.
Eighteen horses have died.
The Facility Report provided with other materials for the October WHBAB meeting indicates a capacity of 3,500 animals, with 2,640 horses and 29 burros warehoused there as of September 19.
The BLM spends about $4.8 million per year to care for those animals while it collects around $43,000 per year in grazing fees from ranchers occupying their lawful home.
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The HSUS darting experiment included jennies in and around the old mining town, according to the research update for the next WHBAB meeting.
Known for its furry panhandlers, Oatman is in the southern half of the Black Mountain HMA on Route 66.
HSUS, signatory to the “Path Forward,” holds the registration for the pesticide.
The BLM removed over 1,000 burros from the HMA in May.
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“Why you talkin’ like that about our program?”
Sixteen trespass horses were captured on September 24, according to a news release by the Park Service.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed and the incident is not open to public observation.
A report by The Journal of Cortez, CO said the low-impact bait-and-trap gather will continue until all the horses are gone, hopefully by 2024.
The population has declined to less than 100 horses, down from a high of 150.
Captured animals will be taken to Mustang Camp in New Mexico, known for its unusual training methods.
Bribery might be more accurate.
Would you adopt a wild horse who thinks you’re lower than he is?
He pushes, you yield. Then you reinforce the behavior with alfalfa cubes.
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We have clever names.
We trick you into giving us money, hoping you won’t notice that our words don’t match our deeds.
We don’t believe what we say. We don’t practice what we preach. We criticize drillers, ranchers and miners but dart wild horses.
We don’t like helicopter roundups but we think wild horses should be removed from their lawful homes in favor of privately owned livestock.
We envy the contractors and want a larger piece of the action.
We intend to be leaders in the wild horse removal industry.
We’re wild horse advocates and we have a better way.
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From the presentation on research, posted with other WHBAB meeting materials.
The Virginia Range darting program, coordinated by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, is now in its fourth year, with most of the mares at the point of no return.
The incident began on September 10. Gather stats through September 28:
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
A stallion and mare were put down on Day 18 as acts of mercy, followed by another stallion on Day 19. Mercy means not getting what you deserve.
The death rate is 3.1%.
The capture total includes 299 stallions, 377 mares and 126 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.7% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 44.2% were male and 55.7% were female.
The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 16% per year.
Body condition scores were not provided.
The location of the trap was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
Day 19 ended with 52 unaccounted-for animals.
Mares treated with fertility control may be returned to the area at a later date.
The capture and removal goals at the gather page have not changed despite new targets in the latest schedule.
Other statistics:
The pre-gather population exceeded the AML but not necessarily the number of horses the land can support.
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The news release on EIN was written by a PZP fanatic.
Here’s the issue in a nutshell: America’s wild horses are being screwed by the bureaucrats in favor of the ranchers with the full cooperation of the advocates.
A well-defined problem is half solved.
Where are we in the process, based on the information in the trailer?
Bottom of the ninth, down 0-3?
They’re the fastest and most efficient way to shift resources back to the public-lands ranchers.
They may be followed by relaxation of AUM curtailments, extension of grazing seasons and more flexible rules for pasture management.
So why wouldn’t a ranching advocacy group endorse them?
The advocates oppose them, claiming they’re cruel and costly, unless they lead to greater use of the Montana Solution, as in catch-treat-release.
They have a better way.
The article, appearing yesterday in St. George News, was written by staff at Utah State University Extension, sponsor of the FREES Network.
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The incident concluded yesterday, according to a statement at the gather page, with 637 horses captured, 592 shipped, 38 released and eight dead.
The number of horses processed exceeded the number of horses captured by one.
The death rate was 1.3%.
The capture total included 248 stallions, 259 mares and 130 foals.
Youngsters represented 20.4% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 15% per year.
Of the adults, 48.9% were male and 51.1% were female.
The capture goal was 700 and the removal goal was 400.
Fifty mares will be treated with GonaCon and returned to the HMA with twelve more stallions, bringing the net removal to 537, 34% more than planned.
The Facility Report posted with other WHBAB meeting materials indicates 63,922 as of September 2022, compared to 56,676 in October 2021.
The on-range population was thought to be 82,384 on March 1, before peak foaling season and numerous roundups, according to the HMA Report.
The advocates have a solution—a better way as they describe it: Stop reproduction, let the herds die off, give most of the resources to the public-lands ranchers.
“We’re changing the way wild horse herds are managed, not their land.”
No tar paper shacks here. The ranch presented at 0:55 may be in Vale, one of the off-range pastures contracted by the BLM. Only $37 million.
The Facility Report posted with other WHBAB meeting materials indicates it has a capacity of 1,000 geldings—stallions taken off their home range, cut, and sent there to die, in favor of the public-lands ranchers, courtesy of American taxpayers.
Nice work if you can get it.
The latest track takes the center of the storm near Gainesville and Paynes Prairie Reserve State Park on Thursday afternoon, then up the coast near Cumberland Island on Friday afternoon, both areas known for their wild horses.
Refer to the bullet list at the WHBAB home page.
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
The total AML of 27,000 is small relative to the available resources because most of them have been assigned to privately owned livestock.
You don’t have a wild horse problem on America’s public lands, you have a resource management problem.
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Eberle Winery will present a special screening of The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses, a feature documentary produced by Robert Redford, Patti Scialfa Springsteen and Jessica Springsteen, according to an announcement by the Paso Robles Daily News.
Producer and Co-Director Steven Latham will join Neda Demayo, signatory to the “Path Forward” and founder of Return to Normal (Before WHB Act), to discuss the film.
The dialogue, like the film, will probably avoid resource management and permitted grazing in areas set aside for wild horses.
Western Horse Watchers was informed that the theme was overpopulation, ranchers are not the problem and PZP is the answer, with Demayo receiving excessive “air time.”
As for the Path Forward, support is much greater than you think. Today, most of the advocacy groups are signatories in principle.
This search result from Google tells you everything you need to know. The advocates are always looking for opportunities to implement their ruinous darting programs, with benefits accruing to the public-lands ranchers.
The link pointed to a story originally produced by KUNR Radio in Reno.
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The incident began on September 10. Gather stats through September 26:
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
Helicopters did not fly on Day 16. The trap may have been moved to a new location.
A stallion was was put down on Day 17 due to a missing eye. He survived the chase and would be alive today if there was no roundup.
The death rate is 3.0%.
The capture total includes 269 stallions, 346 mares and 120 foals.
Youngsters represented 16.3% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 43.7% were male and 56.3% were female.
The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 16% per year.
The observed percentages of males and females are outside the range of variation attributable to a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females.
Body condition scores were not provided.
The location of the trap was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
Day 17 ended with 25 unaccounted-for animals.
Mares treated with fertility control may be returned to the area at a later date.
The capture and removal goals at the gather page have not changed despite new targets in the latest schedule.
Other statistics:
The pre-gather population exceeded the AML but not necessarily the number of horses the land can support.
RELATED: Calico Roundup, Day 15.
The incident started on September 12. Results through September 26:
Body condition scores indicate more horses than allowed by plan, not more horses than the land can support. If the horses were starving the scores would be lower.
More information may be available on socialist media but Western Horse Watchers won’t read it or link to it.
The government collects $21,210 per year in grazing fees from ranching activity inside the WHT while it spends $2,388,925 per year to care for the horses displaced thereby.
Would you say that permitted grazing is a wise use of the public lands?
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The incident began on September 17. Gather stats through September 25:
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
A stallion was put down on Day 8 due to a broken leg, followed by four more stallions on Day 9 due to blindness and other deformities.
The death rate is 1.0%.
The capture total includes 243 stallions, 250 mares and 127 foals.
Youngsters represented 20.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 49.3% were male and 50.7% were female.
The observed percentage of foals suggests the herd growth rate may be closer to 16% per year, given a death rate of 5% per year.
Body condition scores were not provided.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
Day 9 ended with 170 unaccounted-for animals.
Mares treated with fertility control may be returned to the area at a later date.
The capture goal is 88% complete. Operations will likely conclude this week.
Other statistics:
How can the HMA be overpopulated with 920 wild horses when the BLM authorizes privately owned livestock equivalent to 1,422 wild horses in the same area, on top of the 390 horses allowed by plan?
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The project will develop a management plan for an area of critical environmental concern in northwestern Nevada, according to the description in ePlanning.
The project map puts the location at the northeastern corner of the Bitner HMA, part of the Surprise Complex, and inside the Bitner Allotment.
The allotment may stay in the Improve category permanently because of the ACEC.
The scoping letter is actually a handout that explains the project.
Comments will be accepted through September 30.
The allotment offers 69.1 AUMs per year per thousand acres to livestock, while the HMA offers a paltry 5.6 AUMs per year per thousand acres to wild horses. Why is that?
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