The incident began on November 8. Results through November 10:
- Scope: Clan Alpine HMA
- 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: 295, up from 130 on Day 1
- Average daily take: 98.3
- Capture goal: 1,594
- Removal goal: 1,381
- Returned: None
- Deaths: 3, up from zero on Day 1
- Shipped: 170, up from zero on Day 1
A mare was dispatched on Day 2 because of a missing eye.
On Day 3, a mare was put down due to a ruptured tendon along with a stallion that had cancer polyps on its head.
The death rate is 1.0%.
The capture total includes 125 stallions, 124 mares and 46 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.6% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 50.2% were male and 49.8% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 3 ended with 122 unaccounted-for animals.
Up to 81 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, before being returned the range with up to 121 stallions.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 3,540 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 2,950 gallons per day
- Horses allowed by plan: 979
- Forage assigned to horses: 11,748 AUMs per year
- Forage assigned to livestock: 6,796 AUMs per year
- Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 566
- True AML: 1,545
- Stocking rate at new AML: 5.2 wild horses per thousand public acres
- Horses displaced by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates
RELATED: Clan Alpine Roundup in Progress.
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