Adobe Town Roundup, Day 15

Range

The incident started on July 15.  Results through July 29:

  • Scope: Adobe Town HMA
  • Target: Horses
  • AML: 536 (was 800)
  • Pre-gather population: Not given, 2,382 according to 2025 population dataset
  • Type: Planned
  • Method: Helicopter
  • Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
  • Better way: Sterilize the mares with PZP (according to advocates)
  • Capture goal: 1,675
  • Removal goal: 1,675
  • Captured: 1,517, up from 1,276 on Day 13
  • Shipped: 1,291, up from 1,076 on Day 13
  • Released: None
  • Deaths: 6, up from 5 on Day 13
  • Average daily take: 101.1
  • Unaccounted-for animals: 220
  • 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 1,519 horses captured (including a mule) and 1,293 shipped.

A foal died of capture shock on Day 14.  The death rate is 0.4%.

The capture total includes 543 stallions, 649 mares and 325 foals, not counting the mule.

The sidebar says 545/648/326.

Youngsters represented 21.4% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 45.6% were male and 54.4% were female.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The name of the contractor was not given.

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

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.  Resources liberated to date:

  • Forage: 18,204 AUMs per year
  • Water: 15,170 gallons per day

The map shows the Rock Springs HMAs before the RMP amendments, which were halted by an appeals court ruling on July 15.  Click to enlarge.

RELATED: Adobe Town Roundup, Day 13.

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