Clan Alpine Roundup, Day 5

Range

The incident began on November 8.  Results through November 12:

  • 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: 518, up from 295 on Day 3
  • Average daily take: 103.6
  • Capture goal: 1,594
  • Removal goal: 1,381
  • Returned: None
  • Deaths: 7, up from 3 on Day 3
  • Shipped: 373, up from 170 on Day 3

A stallion and mare were dispatched on Day 4 because of cancer.  Another stallion and mare were killed because of abscesses, a treatable condition.

The death rate is 1.4%.

The capture total includes 209 stallions, 225 mares and 84 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.2% of the animals gathered, suggesting the herd is growing at a rate of 11% per year.

Of the adults, 48.2% were male and 51.8% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.

Clan Alpine HMA with Allotments 06-17-23

Day 5 ended with 138 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: 6,216 AUMs per year
  • Water liberated to date: 5,180 gallons per day
  • Horses allowed by plan: 979
  • Pre-gather population: 1,661 plus this year’s foals
  • 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, Day 3.

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