The incident started on January 6.  Results through January 10:

• Scope: Fish Creek HMA
• Target: Wild horses
• AML: 180
• Pre-gather population: 245
• True AML: 440
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
• Capture goal: 196
• Removal goal: 144
• Captured: 194, up from 123 on Day 3
• Shipped: 112, up from 39 on Day 3
• Released: 50, up from zero on Day 3
• Deaths: None
• Average daily take: 38.8
• Unaccounted-for animals: 32
• 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 capture total includes 91 stallions, 100 mares and 3 foals.

Youngsters represented 1.5% of the animals gathered, much lower than expected and too small to support herd growth.

Of the adults, 47.6% were male and 52.4% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio in the population at large.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

On Day 5, 23 mares treated with PZP were returned to the range with 27 stallions.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

Resources liberated to date:

• Forage: 1,728 AUMs per year
• Water: 1,440 gallons per day

RELATED: Fish Creek Roundup, Day 3.

Not anymore.  Not on Little Horse Island either.

They were captured in November and taken to nearby farms to live out the rest of their lives according to a story by The Island Packet.

There are no plans to preserve the bloodlines.

A speed limit is an administrative constraint, not a physical constraint.

Cars can easily exceed 40 mph.

The speed of light is a physical limit.  No faster method of signaling has been discovered.

Proponents of animal agriculture, which include the wild horse advocates, want you to believe that AMLs represent physical limits.

The herds must stay within AMLs if they are to survive.

It’s pure nonsense but it drives the roundups and fertility control programs.

One of the best ways to tell if an advocate has gone over to the dark side is if she offers her help or declares or her intent to achieve and maintain AMLs.

Another clue is that she wears a “Stay Wild” tee shirt.

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The full-time position is based in Carson City, NV.

Relocation expenses will not be reimbursed but there is an incentive equal to 10% of the annual salary.

The job posting will close on January 24 or after 30 applications have been received, whichever comes first.

The new order extends the original for 20 years and goes into effect on March 8.

RELATED: BLM to Extend Pryor Mountain Land Withdrawal.

The incident started on January 6.  Results through January 8:

• Scope: Fish Creek HMA
• Target: Wild horses
• AML: 180
• Pre-gather population: 245
• True AML: 440
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
• Capture goal: 196
• Removal goal: 144
• Captured: 123, up from 55 on Day 1
• Shipped: 39, up from zero on Day 1
• Released: None
• Deaths: None
• Average daily take: 41.0
• Unaccounted-for animals: 84
• 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 capture total includes 59 stallions, 61 mares and 3 foals.

Youngsters represented 2.4% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 49.2% were male and 50.8% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

Up to 26 mares will be treated with PZP and returned to the range with up to 26 stallions.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Fish Creek Roundup in Progress.

The incident started on November 29.  Results through January 6:

• Scope: Murderer’s Creek HMA, WHT
• Target: Wild horses
• AML: 140
• Pre-gather population: 650
• True AML: TBD
• Type: Emergency
• Method: Bait
• Capture goal: 350 – 400
• Removal goal: 350 – 400
• Captured: 210, up from 193 on Day 35
• Shipped: 186, no change from Day 35
• Released: None
• Deaths: 4, no change from Day 35
• Average daily take: 6.0
• Unaccounted-for animals: 20
• 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 death rate is 1.9%.

The capture total includes 73 stallions, 90 mares and 47 foals.  The gather page says 72/91/47.

Youngsters represented 22.4% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 17% per year.  The Rule of 72 says the herd size will double in 4.2 years.

Of the adults, 44.8% were male and 55.2% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio in the population at large.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The name of the contractor was not provided.

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

No decisions have made regarding the long-term disposition of horses, which means they could be treated or altered in off range holding, including the stallions.

The status of livestock grazing in the burned area is not known.

RELATED: Murderer’s Creek Roundup, Day 35.

From public comments on Day 1 of the WHBAB meeting.

Failure to use the product as specified on the label is a violation of federal law.

It’s not bordering on criminal, it is criminal.

RELATED: WHBAB Livestream to Include Public Comments.

The incident started today as planned with 55 horses captured and no deaths.

The number of animals shipped and released were not given.

RELATED: Fish Creek Roundup Announced.

The incident occurred in Beaver County, Tammy Pearson’s stomping ground (Beaver County commissioner, public-lands rancher and member of the WHBAB).

The BLM news release said they were found northwest of the Minersville Reservoir on the Mineral Range Mountains.

That puts them in the Minersville #2 Allotment or the south end of the Mineral Range Allotment.

The agency has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible.

The nearest HMA is Frisco, about 25 miles to the northwest (not visible in map).

At the southwest corner of the Virginia Range with Jeff Martinez.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the district court’s ruling granting summary judgment for the U.S. Forest Service in its decision to approve the Ochoco Herd Management Plan.

The court rejected all of the plaintiffs’ claims according to the January 3 ruling, allowing the plan to go forward.

The agency is currently renovating a facility near Prineville that will house wild horses removed from the WHT.

Although the case cited the availability of winter forage as the limiting factor in setting the AML, there was no discussion of the forage assigned to livestock in the Reservoir Allotment, which overlaps most of the WHT.

RELATED: Ninth Circuit Hears Arguments in Big Summit Appeal.