McGee Mountain Roundup Over

The incident concluded today with 22 burros captured, 19 shipped, none released and three dead.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

The death rate was 13.6%.

The capture total included six jacks, fifteen jennies and one foal.

Youngsters represented 4.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 28.6% were male and 71.4% were female.

There were no plans to treat any of the jennies with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The roundup supported three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: McGee Mountain Roundup Starts Next Week.

UPDATE: The BLM news release said the incident restored a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationship, codewords for maximizing rancher prosperity.

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