The incident began on September 12. Results through October 3:
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.
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- Target: Horses
- Type: Planned
- Method: Unknown
- Captured: 311
- Average daily take: 14.1
- Capture goal: Unknown
- Removal goal: Unknown
- Returned: Unknown
- Deaths: Unknown
- Shipped: Unknown
- Unaccounted-for: Unknown
- Location of trap: Unknown
- Destination of captured animals: Unknown
- Horses allowed by plan (AML): 402
- Forage assigned to horses: 4,824 AUMs per year
- Pre-gather population: Unknown
- Forage assigned to livestock inside WHT: 15,711 AUMs per year (estimated)
- Horses displaced from WHT by permitted grazing: 1,309
- True AML: 1,711
- Stocking rate at new AML: 6.6 horses per thousand acres
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?
All of this could be avoided—foals, adults, all of them—with patience and an aggressive darting program.
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