The incident started on October 17. Results through October 21:
- FY: 2027
- Scope: Dogskin Mountains, Flanigan, Granite Peak HMAs
- Target: Horses
- AML: 157
- Pre-gather population: 424
- Type: Planned
- Contractor: Cattoor
- Contract amount: $213,082
- Unit cost: $666
- Method: Helicopter
- Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
- Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP, pray for older horses to die (per advocates)
- Capture goal: 320
- Removal goal: 320
- Captured: 275, up from 87 on Day 3
- Shipped: 136, up from 47 on Day 3
- Released: None
- Deaths: 1, no change from Day 3
- Average daily take: 55.0
- Unaccounted-for animals: 138
- 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 death rate is 0.4%.
The capture total includes 84 stallions, 122 mares and 69 foals.
Youngsters represented 25.1% of the animals gathered, a sign of genetic vigor.
Of the adults, 40.8% were male and 59.2% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio but close.
Body condition scores on Days 4 and 5 ranged from 3 to 5.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control and return them to the range, which would prolong the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.
The Complex is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
- Forage: 3,300 AUMs per year
- Water: 2,750 gallons per day
Public lands within five miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding pens are closed to the public, with the exception of observers escorted by BLM staff.
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