The incident began on October 17. Results through October 21:
- Scope: Moriah HA
- Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
- Target: Horses
- Type: Planned
- Method: Helicopter
- Category: Cruel and costly*
- Better way: Sterilize mares with pesticide-laced darts*
- Captured: 336, up from 203 on Day 3
- Average daily take: 67.2
- Capture goal: 400
- Removal goal: 400
- Returned: None
- Deaths: 2, up from zero on Day 3
- Shipped: 284, up from 103 on Day 3
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
Two colts were put down on Day 5, one because of club foot and another due to lameness in both front legs.
The death rate is 0.6%.
The capture total includes 113 stallions, 151 mares and 72 foals.
Youngsters represented 21.4% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 42.8% were male and 57.2% were female.
Body condition scores ranged from 3 to 4 both days.
The HA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 5 ended with 50 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Horses allowed by plan (AML): None
- Forage liberated to date: 4,032 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 3,360 gallons per day
- Forage assigned to livestock: Undetermined
- Horses displaced from HA by permitted grazing: Undetermined
- True AML: Undetermined
- Stocking rate at new AML: Undetermined
- 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: Moriah Roundup, Day 3.
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