The URL of the news release puts it at the BLM Announcements page but as of this evening it’s not there. Very strange.
The incident will begin on February 24 as scheduled.
The capture and removal goals are 100 each.
A helicopter will push the animals into the trap and operations will be open to public observation.
Burros identified for removal will be taken to the Axtell off-range corrals.
Daily reports will be posted to the gather page.
There are no plans to treat any of the jennies with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMA can only support 100 burros on 77,311 public acres, equivalent to 50 wild horses or 0.6 wild horses per thousand public acres. The target stocking rate across all HMAs is one wild horse per thousand acres.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
A one-day roundup last year took 46 burros off the range.
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