Adobe Town Roundup, Day 17

The incident started on July 15. Results through July 31:

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: 1,675, up from 1,517 on Day 15
Shipped: 1,508, up from 1,291 on Day 15
Released: 2, up from zero on Day 15
Deaths: 9, up from 6 on Day 15
Average daily take: 98.5
Unaccounted-for animals: 158
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 1,677 horses captured, including a mule, and 1,510 shipped.

The capture goal has been reached.

The sidebar indicates that two stallions were released but this is not documented in the daily reports.

A foal died of capture shock and a stallion was euthanized on Day 16.

A foal was dispatched on Day 17.

The death rate is 0.5%.

The capture total includes 601 stallions, 720 mares and 354 foals, not counting the mule.

The sidebar says 603/719/355.

Youngsters represented 21.1% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 45.5% were male and 54.5% 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:

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.