The incident started on October 1. Results through October 3:
- Scope: Twin Peaks HMA
- Target: Wild horses
- AML: 758 horses (and 116 burros)
- Pre-gather population: 1,800 horses (and 140 burros)
- Type: Planned
- Method: Helicopter
- Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
- Better way: Shoot mares with pesticide-laced darts (according to advocates)
- Capture goal: 940
- Removal goal: 870
- Captured: 260, up from 46 on Day 1
- Shipped: 95, up from 35 on Day 1
- Released: 1, up from zero on Day 1
- Deaths: 2, up from zero on Day 1
- Average daily take: 86.7
- Unaccounted-for animals: 162
- Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
- Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The sidebar at the gather page says 266 captured.
Two mares were dispatched on Day 3 for blindness in one eye, bringing the death rate to 0.8%.
The Day 3 report also indicated that the door on a trailer came open as horses were being moved from the capture site to temporary holding, resulting in nine falling out.
They ran to the top of a hill and were not recaptured, yet the sidebar says one released.
The capture total includes 91 stallions, 126 mares and 43 foals.
Youngsters represented 16.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 41.9% were male and 58.1% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
The trap is in the North Observation home range, which may correspond to one of the grazing allotments.
The number of animals removed depends on the number released. Up to 30 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine and be returned to the range with up to 42 stallions according to the FY25 schedule.
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