The incident started on August 2. Results through August 8:
- 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: 223, up from 146 on Day 5
- Shipped: 171, up from 81 Day 5
- Released: None
- Deaths: 2, up from 1 on Day 5
- Average daily take: 31.9
- 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.
A foal was found dead in temporary holding on Day 6.
The death rate is 0.9%.
The capture total includes 79 stallions, 98 mares and 46 foals.
Youngsters represented 20.6% of the animals gathered, large enough to support a herd growth rate of 15% per year.
Of the adults, 44.6% were male and 55.4% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.
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: 2,676 AUMs per year
- Water: 2,230 gallons per day
The Blawn Wash HA is unfit for wild horses, supposedly, and has no AML.
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