Antelope Roundup Summary, Day 39

The incidents began on July 9.  The South roundup ended on July 26.  The North roundup continues.

Combined results through August 16:

• Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, Antelope, 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: 2,977
• Capture goal: 3,107
• Removal goal: 3,107
• Percent complete: 95.8
• Returned: 7
• Deaths: 36
• Shipped: 2,876

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

The death rate is 1.2%.

The capture total includes 1,096 stallions, 1,358 mares and 523 foals.

Youngsters represented 17.6% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 44.7% were male and 55.3% were female.

A birth rate of 18% per year corresponds to a herd growth rate of 13% per year.

Day 39 ended with 58 unaccounted-for animals.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing, with livestock receiving over seven times more forage than the horses inside the Complex.

That resource would support an additional 6,079 wild horses, putting the True AML at 6,868.

You don’t have a wild horse problem, as the advocates would have you believe, you have a resource management problem.

*According to advocates.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 39, Antelope Roundup South Over.