The incident started on August 2. Results through August 4:
- Scope: Bible Springs, Four Mile, Tilly Creek HMAs, Blawn Wash HA
- Target: Horses
- AML: 170
- Pre-gather population: 961
- Type: Planned
- Method: Helicopter
- Category: Costly and inhumane (according to advocates)
- Better way: Snuff out new life with PZP (according to advocates)
- Capture goal: 800
- Removal goal: 800
- Captured: 50, up from 19 on Day 1
- Shipped: None
- Released: None
- Deaths: None
- Average daily take: 16.7
- Unaccounted-for animals: 50
- 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 capture total includes 20 stallions, 18 mares and 12 foals.
Youngsters represented 24% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 52.6% were male and 47.4% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The name of the contractor was not specified.
The contract amount was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMAs are subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
- Forage: 600 AUMs per year
- Water: 500 gallons per day
The Blawn Wash HA is unfit for wild horses, supposedly, and has no AML.
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