The incident is on the latest schedule with a start date of August 15.
The capture and removal goals are 586 each.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the HMA, which differs slightly from the action authorized in 2021.
In that scenario, 478 wild horses would be captured, 358 would be removed and 120 would be treated with pesticides and returned to the HMA.
Western Horse Watchers suspects the deviation from the original plan triggered the NEPA review.
Comments will be accepted through March 22 according to today’s news release.
The DNA worksheet was copied to the project folder in ePlanning.
The HMA, home of the Pilot Butte Wild Horse Loop, is subject to permitted grazing.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
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