The incident started on August 11. Results through August 13:
- Scope: Maverick-Medicine HMA, Wood Hills
- Target: Horses
- AML: 276
- Pre-gather population: Not given
- Type: Emergency
- Method: Bait (August 5 schedule says helicopter)
- Category: Unnecessary (according to advocates)
- Better way: Sterilize the mares with PZP (according to advocates)
- Capture goal: 215
- Removal goal: 215
- Captured: 171, up from 17 on Day 1
- Shipped: None
- Released: None
- Deaths: 8, up from zero on Day 1
- Average daily take: 57.0
- Unaccounted-for animals: 163
- 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.
Three horses were dispatched on Day 2, followed by five on Day 3. No details were given.
The death rate is 4.7%.
The capture total includes 72 stallions, 76 mares and 23 foals.
Youngsters represented 13.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 48.6% were male and 51.4% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known. The capture rate suggests that the method of removal is helicopter, not bait.
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.
Both areas are subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
- Forage: 2,052 AUMs per year
- Water: 1,710 gallons per day
The AML for Wood Hills is zero.
RELATED: Maverick-Medicine Emergency Roundup in Progress.
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