It’s not managed for wild horses due to limited food and water, according to a news release dated August 28, but it’s overlapped by an allotment that offers 82.2 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to 6.8 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The HA, listed as West Douglas Creek in the 2023 HA/HMA Report, covers 127,649 total acres, including 122,909 public acres in western Colorado.
The AML is zero.
Most of the horses were removed in a 2021 roundup.
Roughly one out of three died the following year in off-range holding.
Now, they’re coming for the remnant.
The incident, set to begin on September 1, will be carried out with helicopters and will be open to public observation.
It is on the July 13 schedule.
The current population is thought to be 122 according to the gather page.
Captured animals will be taken to the Cañon City off-range corrals, site of the 2022 virus outbreak that proved fatal only to West Douglas horses.
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