The incident began on July 9. Results through August 8:
- Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, Antelope Valley HMAs
- Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
- Target: Horses
- Type: Planned
- Method: Helicopter
- Category: Cruel and costly*
- Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
- Captured: 1,607, up from 1,568 on Day 29
- Average daily take: 51.8
- Capture goal: 2,000
- Removal goal: 2,000
- Returned: 5, no change from Day 29
- Deaths: 21, no change from Day 29
- Shipped: 1,563, up from 1,490 on Day 29
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
The number of horses captured is 1,613 and the number shipped is 1,565 according to the figures in the sidebar.
Gather operations were suspended in favor of a “resource flight” on Day 31.
The death rate is 1.3%.
The capture total includes 629 stallions, 735 mares and 243 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.1% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.1% were male and 53.9% were female.
A 15% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 10% per year, a bit less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.
Body condition scores on Day 30 ranged from 3 to 5.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 31 ended with 18 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 19,224 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 16,020 gallons per day
- Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
- Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
- True AML: Unknown
- Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
- Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 29.
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