The incident began on July 9.  Results through July 21:

• Scope: Antelope, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 963, up from 826 on Day 11
• Average daily take: 74.1
• Capture goal: 1,107
• Removal goal: 1,107
• Returned: 2, no change from Day 11
• Deaths: 9, up from 7 on Day 11
• Shipped: 856, up from 783 on Day 11

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

Lameness and club feet were reported as deaths on Day 13, suggesting that the animals were taken alive but killed by the wranglers.

The death rate is 0.9%.

The capture total includes 312 stallions, 440 mares and 211 foals.

Youngsters represented 21.9% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 41.5% were male and 58.5% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 752 adults.

A 22% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 17% per year, a bit less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Body condition scores were not provided.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.

Day 13 ended with 96 unaccounted-for animals.

Mares treated with fertility control pesticides will be returned to the area at a later date.

Other statistics:

• Forage liberated to date: 11,532 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 9,610 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup South, Day 11.

The incident began on July 9.  Results through July 21:

• Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 444, up from 347 on Day 11
• Average daily take: 34.2
• Capture goal: 2,000
• Removal goal: 2,000
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 8, up from 5 on Day 11
• Shipped: 371, up from 268 on Day 11

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

The number of horses shipped to date is 377 according to the summary.

A stallion was put down on Day 12 due to blindness in one eye, a non-life-threatening condition.

He’d be alive today if there was no roundup, so this “act of mercy” is chargeable thereto.

Two leg fractures were reported as deaths on Day 13, suggesting the animals were also killed by the wranglers, one related to the roundup and one pre-existing.

The death rate is 1.8%.

The capture total includes 152 stallions, 221 mares and 71 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.0% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 40.8% were male and 59.2% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 373 adults.

A 16% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 11% per year, considerably less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Body condition scores on Days 12 and 13 ranged from 3 to 4.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.

Day 13 ended with 65 unaccounted-for animals.

There are no plans to treat captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the area.

Other statistics:

• Forage liberated to date: 5,328 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 4,440 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 11.

The incident started on July 20, according to the gather page, with 12 horses captured and 12 shipped.

The location of the trap site was not given.

RELATED: Johnnie Roundup Announced.

The incidents began on July 9 (North | South).  Combined results through July 19:

• Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, Antelope, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 1,173
• Average daily take: 106.6
• Capture goal: 3,107
• Removal goal: 3,107
• Percent complete: 37.8
• Returned: 2
• Deaths: 12
• Shipped: 1,051

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

The death rate is 1.0%.

The capture total includes 366 stallions, 557 mares and 250 foals.

Youngsters represented 21.3% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 39.7% were male and 60.3% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 923 adults.

A birth rate of 21% per year corresponds to a growth rate of 16% per year.

Day 11 ended with 108 unaccounted-for animals.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing, with livestock receiving an estimated 7.7 times more forage than horses inside the Complex.

*According to advocates.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 11, Antelope Roundup South, Day 11.

A report dated July 19 by AP News says the stallion that broke his leg trying to escape from the trap was pressured by wranglers, not helicopters.

The advocates point to the incident as justification for their ruinous darting programs while saying almost nothing about the causes of roundups and beneficiaries thereof.

The story has been picked up by major new outlets.

RELATED: Helicopter Ban Is Not the Answer.

The incident began on July 9.  Results through July 19:

• Scope: Antelope, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 826, up from 679 on Day 9
• Average daily take: 75.1
• Capture goal: 1,107
• Removal goal: 1,107
• Returned: 2, no change from Day 9
• Deaths: 7, no change from Day 9
• Shipped: 783, up from 658 on Day 9

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

The death rate is 0.8%.

The capture total includes 259 stallions, 377 mares and 190 foals.

Youngsters represented 23.0% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 40.7% were male and 59.3% were female.  These statistics fall outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 636 adults.  The disparity might be explained by the contractor targeting family bands.

A birth rate of 23% per year corresponds to a growth rate of 18% per year.

Land managers often use growth rates of 20% per year to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Body condition scores were not provided.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.

Day 11 ended with 34 unaccounted-for animals.

Mares treated with fertility control pesticides will be returned to the area at a later date.

Other statistics:

• Forage liberated to date: 9,888 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 8,240 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup South, Day 9.

The incident began on July 9.  Results through July 19:

• Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 347, up from 289 on Day 9
• Average daily take: 31.5
• Capture goal: 2,000
• Removal goal: 2,000
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 5, up from 4 on Day 9
• Shipped: 268, up from 234 on Day 9

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

The number of horses shipped to date is 274 according to the summary.

The trap was moved on Day 10.

A mare was put down on Day 11 due to blindness in one eye, a non-life-threatening condition.

The death rate is 1.4%.

The capture total includes 107 stallions, 180 mares and 60 foals.

Youngsters represented 17.3% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 37.3% were male and 62.7% were female.  These statistics fall outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 287 adults.  The disparity might be explained by the contractor targeting family bands.

A 17% birth rate corresponds to a herd growth rate of 12% per year.

Land managers often use growth rates of 20% per year to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Body condition scores on Day 11 ranged from 3 to 4.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.

Day 11 ended with 74 unaccounted-for animals.

There are no plans to treat captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the area.

Other statistics:

• Forage liberated to date: 4,164 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 3,470 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 9.

It’s on the July 13 schedule but not on the June 14 schedule.

Billed as a nuisance roundup, the BLM will remove approximately 25 wild horses and 100 wild burros from private lands near Pahrump, NV, starting on or about July 20.

Animals will be drawn into the traps with bait and operations will not be open to public observation.

Captured animals will be taken to the Ridgecrest off-range corrals.

Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page.

The horses and burros are crossing state highways and have entered private properties, damaging fencing, water lines and vegetation, according to today’s news release.

The HMA is managed for burros.  The AML for horses is zero.

The herd on the Maryland side of the island consisted of 14 bands and 81 horses, according to the inventory dated July 16, no change from June.

Seven foals were born this year.

The sex ratio cannot be determined but is likely skewed in favor of females.

If a dominant stallion runs each band, and seven mares are viable, the breeding population is very small, less than 20% of the herd size, seven years after the safe, proven and reversible darting program was shut off.

The BLM WHB Handbook indicates the breeding population should exceed 50 animals to maintain an acceptable level of genetic diversity.

The pesticide of choice was Zonastat-H, a miracle drug according to the advocates.

The Assateague Island Alliance updates the lists monthly.

RELATED: Assateague Pony Census, June 2023.

The incident began on July 9.  Results through July 17:

• Scope: Antelope, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 679, up from 631 on Day 7
• Average daily take: 75.4
• Capture goal: 1,107
• Removal goal: 1,107
• Returned: 2, no change from Day 7
• Deaths: 7, up from 5 on Day 7
• Shipped: 658, up from 533 on Day 7

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

Aerial operations were cut short on Days 8 and 9 by temperature and wind.

A mare and stallion died of fractured necks on Day 8, probably due to collisions with pipe panels.

The death rate is 1.0%.

The advocates will point to these losses as justification for their ruinous darting programs.

The capture total includes 212 stallions, 309 mares and 158 foals.

Youngsters represented 23.3% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 40.7% were male and 59.3% were female.  The proportions fall outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 521 adults.  The disparity might be explained by the contractor targeting family bands.

A birth rate of 23% per year corresponds to a growth rate of 18% per year.

Land managers often use growth rates of 20% per year to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Body condition scores were not provided.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.

Day 9 ended with 12 unaccounted-for animals.

Mares treated with fertility control pesticides will be returned to the area at a later date.

Other statistics:

• Forage liberated to date: 8,124 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 6,770 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup South, Day 7.

The incident began on July 9.  Results through July 17:

• Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 289, up from 249 on Day 7
• Average daily take: 32.1
• Capture goal: 2,000
• Removal goal: 2,000
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 4, no change from Day 7
• Shipped: 234, up from 193 on Day 7

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

The number of horses shipped to date, based on the daily reports, is 234, compared to a total of 240 in the summary.

The trap may have been moved on Day 8, possibly to another HMA, because no horses were captured and none were shipped on Day 9.

The death rate is 1.4%.

The capture total includes 93 stallions, 146 mares and 50 foals.

Youngsters represented 17.3% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 38.9% were male and 61.1% were female.  The proportions fall outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 239 adults.  The disparity might be explained by the contractor targeting family bands.

A 17% birth rate corresponds to a herd growth rate of 12% per year.

Land managers often use growth rates of 20% per year to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Body condition scores on Day 9 were 4.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.

Day 9 ended with 51 unaccounted-for animals.

There are no plans to treat captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the area.

Other statistics:

• Forage liberated to date: 3,468 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 2,890 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 7.

Probably a fair statement.  Most of them are frauds.

But what would you say if the writer was an acolyte for the Wild Horse Fire Brigade, a group that wants wild horses moved from areas where they’re not wanted, sometimes referred to as their lawful homes, to remote wilderness areas not particularly suited to livestock grazing?

Pot calling the kettle black?

You can’t judge a book by its cover but you can certainly dismiss an article written by one of the Benedict Arnolds of the wild horse world.

RELATED: Capitulation, Surrender, Defeat.

The Animal Defense Council of Tuscon, AZ, will pay $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible, according to a story dated July 16 by KGUN News.

RELATED: Wild Burros Found Dead in Death Valley.

A kayakers-eye view of cherished wild horses by Walking with a Wookie.