The incident will begin on or about July 8 according to today’s news release.
The plan targets 1,373 wild horses and 356 wild burros for capture and removal.
Helicopters will push the animals into the traps and operations will be open to public observation.
The announcement does not indicate if any of the mares will be treated with fertility control pesticides but the June 3 schedule puts the figure at 40.
The Blue Wing Complex consists of five HMAs, a subset of the land designated in 1971.
The National Data Viewer shows the arrangement. Click on image to open in new tab.
Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals in Fallon with some of the burros going to Axtell. Both facilities are privately owned.
The Complex lies within the Blue Wing – Seven Troughs Allotment, which offers 20,316 active AUMs on 1,192,778 public acres, or 17 AUMs per year per thousand public acres.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
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