The incident started on October 28. Results through November 24:
- Location: Devil’s Garden Plateau WHT
- AML: 402
- Pre-gather population: Between 651 and 998
- Target: Horses
- Type: Planned
- Method: Helicopter and bait
- Goals: Capture 500, remove 500
- Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
- Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
- Captured: 301, up from 128 on Day 10
- Shipped: Unknown
- Released: Unknown
- Deaths: 3
- Average daily take: 10.8
- Unaccounted-for animals: Unknown
The Forest Service added daily reports to the gather page starting on November 1 but results for October 28 – 31 are missing.
The death rate is 1%.
The capture total since November 1 includes 80 stallions, 99 mares and 40 foals, for a total of 219.
That means 82 horses were taken during the first four days which is hard to believe for an operation that’s been averaging ten per day.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
More information may be available on socialist media.
Body conditions scores have been averaging 4 to 5, an indication that the horses are not starving and the herd has not exceeded the ability of the land to sustain it.
The roundup will achieve a thriving ecological balance and multiple-use relationship on public lands, codewords for ranching superiority in the lawful home of wild horses.
RELATED: Devil’s Garden Roundup, Day 10.
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