The incident started on July 10.  Results through July 14:

• Scope: Callaghan, South Shoshone, Bald Mountain, Hickison HMAs
• Target: Horses
• AML: 552
• Pre-gather population: Over 4,500
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Costly and inhumane (according to advocates)
• Better way: Beat the population down with PZP (according to advocates)
• Capture goal: 2,000
• Removal goal: 2,000
• Captured: 1,046, up from 542 on Day 3
• Shipped: 723, up from 325 on Day 3
• Released: None
• Deaths: 3, no change from Day 3
• Average daily take: 209.2
• Unaccounted-for animals: 320
• 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 0.3%.

The capture total includes 446 stallions, 422 mares and 178 foals.

Youngsters represented 17.0% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 51.4% were male and 48.6% 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.

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.  Resources liberated to date:

• Forage: 12,552 AUMs per year
• Water: 10,460 gallons per day

The project area covers 1,145,515 acres.

RELATED: Callaghan Roundup, Day 3.

The total climbed to 83 on July 10, up from 73 on June 21.

Last year’s record was 103.

Thunderbolt was the top producer, credited with eight foals.

There was a three-way tie for second place and a four-way tie for third.

Colts led fillies 43 to 39 with one undetermined.

Refer to this spreadsheet for a ranking of sires.

The herd has been engineered for maximum production and revenues, despite a limit of 150 horses in the refuge.

The pony swim will occur on July 29 according to the guide, followed by the auction on July 30.

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The incident started on July 10.  Results through July 12:

• Scope: Callaghan, South Shoshone, Bald Mountain, Hickison HMAs
• Target: Horses
• AML: 552
• Pre-gather population: Over 4,500
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Costly and inhumane (according to advocates)
• Better way: Snuff out new life with PZP (according to advocates)
• Capture goal: 2,000
• Removal goal: 2,000
• Captured: 542, up from 329 on Day 1
• Shipped: 325, up from zero on Day 1
• Released: None
• Deaths: 3, up from 1 on Day 1
• Average daily take: 180.7
• Unaccounted-for animals: 214
• 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.

Helicopters did not fly on Day 2.

Two horses died unintentionally the same day.

The death rate is 0.6%.

The capture total includes 228 stallions, 229 mares and 85 foals.

Youngsters represented 15.7% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 49.9% were male and 50.1% were female.

Body condition scores were not given on Day 3.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The name of the contractor was not specified.

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.  Resources liberated to date:

• Forage: 6,504 AUMs per year
• Water: 5,420 gallons per day

The project area covers 1,145,515 acres.

RELATED: Callaghan Roundup in Progress.

At the southwest corner of the Virginia Range, documenting the mass sterilization program, with Art.

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The final day (for aerial operations) was July 10 according to the Inyo horse page, with 461 horses captured and three dead.

All deaths were intentional.

Some horses may still be on site awaiting shipment.

Foals represented 18% of the animals captured, too small to support a herd growth rate of 20% per year.

Of the adults, 50% were male and 50% were female.

The incident liberated 5,532 AUMs per year for other mandated uses of public lands.

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The incident started yesterday as planned with 329 horses captured, none shipped, none released and one dead.

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The ranch covers 44,311 total acres, including 9,006 deeded acres, according to the listing.

The nearest towns are Slater, Craig and Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Most of the public acreage is in the Roaring Fork and Stewardship allotments of the Routt National Forest.

One is in Colorado and the other is in Wyoming.

The ranch also has preference on three BLM allotments.

Overall, the land ratio is good, 3.8 public acres per deeded acre.

The ranch does not overlap areas identified for wild horses.

Management as a wild horse preserve might be difficult because the allotments are not contiguous and multiple government agencies are involved.

Allotment conversion is not illegal, but your faithful public servants are trying to make it so—at least on BLM lands— by changing the Part 4100 grazing regulations.

You can comment against the proposal through July 13.

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The successor to the Wild Horse Working Group, disbanded in 2025, will meet online according to the news release.

No agenda was provided.

Creation of a wild horse preserve, suggested by the original group, will be impossible on public lands if the grazing rule update goes through.

Why aren’t the advocates talking about that?

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Today a U.S. District Judge granted a preliminary injunction barring federal agencies from classifying the horses as unauthorized livestock and preventing them from capturing and removing them according to a report by Courthouse News Service.

The order applies to all horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests not just the Heber WHT.

Last month ASNF solicited input on low-stress removal of up to 2,000 wild horses.

RELATED: Would Mass Sterilization Qualify as Low-Stress Removal?

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The incident started yesterday as planned according to the Inyo wild horse page, with 219 animals captured and no deaths.

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Yesterday judges in Sacramento denied two requests to halt the incident according to a report by Courthouse News Service.

Another judge granted a request to halt the removal of wild horses at Carter Reservoir, Buckhorn and Coppersmith, scheduled to begin on September 1.

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