The incident started on August 11. Results through August 15:
- 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: 210. up from 171 on Day 3
- Shipped: None
- Released: None
- Deaths: 11, up from 8 on Day 3
- Average daily take: 42.0
- Unaccounted-for animals: 199
- 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.
Results for Day 5 were not posted until today. The gather page says it’s over but not with 199 unaccounted-for animals.
Two horses died on Day 4, followed by one on Day 5, lifting the death rate to 5.2%.
The capture total includes 94 stallions, 85 mares and 31 foals.
Youngsters represented 14.8% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 52.5% were male and 47.5% 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.
Both areas are subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
- Forage: 2,520 AUMs per year
- Water: 2,100 gallons per day
The AML for Wood Hills is zero.
RELATED: Maverick-Medicine Emergency Roundup, Day 3.
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