The incident began on July 15.  Gather stats through July 29:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Captured: 776, up from 725 on Day 13
• Average daily take: 51.7
• Capture goal: 1,050
• Removal goal: 750
• Returned: None, no change from Day 13
• Deaths: 3, no change from Day 13
• Shipped: 668, up from 633 on Day 13

The death rate is 0.4%.

The total, based on the daily reports, includes 279 stallions, 347 mares and 150 foals.

The eighteen horses taken off the range in Part 1 have been omitted.

Youngsters represented 19.3% of the animals captured.  Of the adults, 44.6% were male and 55.4% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 19% per year.

Fourteen percent would be a better estimate assuming a death rate of 5% per year.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 15 ended with 105 unaccounted-for animals.

The capture goal is 74% complete.

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

Other statistics:

• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 235
• Forage assigned to horses: 2,820 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 1,385
• Forage liberated to date: 9,312 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 7,760 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 6,840 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 570
• True AML: 805
• Stocking rate at new AML: 4.2 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Piceance Roundup, Part 2 Day 13.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that 18 horses captured earlier this year need not be returned to Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests because they do not qualify for protection under the WHB Act and are therefore considered to be unauthorized livestock, according to a report posted today by Courthouse News Service.

RELATED: ISPMB Complaint Involves ASNF ‘Jumping Mouse’ Horses.

Operations will begin August 7, as scheduled, with three HMAs and one HA affected.

The capture goal is 450 and the removal goal is 410.  Mares treated with fertility control would be returned to the range but this is not mentioned in the news release.

Helicopters will push the horses into the traps and the incident will be open to public observation, conditions permitting.

The Complex covers 215,350 total acres in southwestern Utah and the 170 horses allowed by plan require 2,040 AUMs per year.

The aimed-at stocking rate is 0.8 wild horses per thousand acres, slightly less than the target rate across all HMAs of one wild horse per thousand acres.

The current population is thought to be 831.

The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.  The HA, on the north side of Four Mile,  was not included.  Click on image to open in new tab.

The Complex intersects 16 allotments with an estimated 7,229 AUMs per year assigned to privately owned livestock inside the HMAs.  Refer to Section 3.3.2 in the Final EA.

Captured animals will be taken to the Axtell off-range corrals, where they will be held at a cost of $5 per head per day.

The BLM will collect $9,759 per year in grazing fees from the permittees while it spends $1.1 million per year to care for the 602 wild horses the resource would support.

Would you say that’s a wise use of the public lands?

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

RELATED: Bible Springs Complex Added to Roundup Schedule.

Mares treated with the Montana Solution tend to live longer than their untreated counterparts, a phenomenon observed at Assateague Island, where the technique was in use for over twenty years.

The 2021 census revealed 27 males and 51 females on the Maryland side of the island, five years after the darting program was shut off.

The Park Service buried the results for 2022.

The advocates acknowledge the fact, and some boast about it, claiming that the mares no longer have to endure the stress of pregnancy, delivery and nurturing the young.

Stallions don’t go through any of that so why are they dying off at a higher rate?

Mares allowed to breed are usually put back on the regimen after they produce a live foal, which may follow one or more stillbirths.

With no new foals on the way, the newborn is free to nurse for several years, as more and more PZP is pumped into its mom.

Given that antibodies are transferred from mothers to foals through their milk, could other substances—that have detrimental effects on males—be transferred to colts?

Perhaps the issue is not longevity of mares but brevity of stallions.

More research is needed, which the advocates will oppose.

The last thing they want you to know about wild horses is the truth.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Who Said We’re Trying to Preserve Them Edition.

Refer to this post on HuntTalk, a message board for outdoorsmen.

The original piece was probably written by the real estate agent and PZP darter in the Minden/Gardnerville area.

“You MUST want to protect wild horses and be a team player.”

Stories by the Pine Nut advocates are occasionally featured these pages, along with the appropriate commentary, such as the June 24 edition of Foal-Free Friday.

The Decision Record, dated July 28, authorizes a mix of Alternatives B and C across seven BLM allotments, as described in Sections 2.3 and 2.4 of the Final EA.

Alternative B applies to Telegraph Creek, Box Elder, Flat Creek and Whiterock Coulee.

Alternative C applies to French Coulee, East Dry Fork and Garey Coulee.

American Prairie Reserve obtained grazing privileges on these allotments by acquiring private lands serving as base properties then petitioned the BLM to change the livestock type to bison.

The decision may establish a precedent for others who acquire private property tied to grazing allotments then request the BLM to change the livestock type to horses.

Catch-treat-release could become adopt-haul-release.

The plan was condemned by the Public Lands Council earlier this year.

The decision is subject to a 30-day appeal period, according to the news release.

The EA and DR were posted with other project documents in ePlanning.

RELATED: Status of American Prairie Grazing Decision.

The incident began on July 23.  Gather stats through July 27:

• Target: Horses and burros
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Horses captured: 787, up from 588 on Day 3
• Burros captured: 2, no change from Day 3
• Average daily take: 157.4 horses, 0.4 burros
• Capture goal: 1,978 horses, 339 burros
• Removal goal: 1,868 horses, 339 burros
• Horses returned: None, no change from Day 3
• Burros returned: None, no change from Day 3
• Horse deaths: 9, up from 6 on Day 3
• Burro deaths: None, no change from Day 3
• Horses shipped: 578, up from 366 on Day 3
• Burros shipped: 2, up from 1 on Day 3

The figures above are based on the daily reports.  The number of horses shipped doesn’t match the total at the gather page.

Two horses were put down on Day 4 due to pre-existing conditions.  A mare jumped out of a pen on Day 5, ran through fencing and was later found dead.

The horse death rate is 1.1%.

The horse total includes 308 stallions, 352 mares and 127 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.1% of the horses captured.  Of the adults, 46.7% were male and 53.3% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 16%.  A better estimate would be 11% per year, assuming a death rate of 5% per year.

Body condition scores on Days 4 and 5 ranged from 4 to 5.

Trapping continued at Bull Flat in Lassen County.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.

Day 5 ended with 200 unaccounted-for horses and no unaccounted-for burros.

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

Other statistics:

• AML: 758 horses and 116 burros, equivalent to 816 horses
• Forage assigned to horses and burros: 9,792 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 3,316 horses and 401 burros, equivalent to 3,516 horses
• Forage liberated to date: 9,456 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 7,880 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 27,178 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Animals displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 2,264 horses
• True AML: 3,022 horses and 116 burros, equivalent to 3,080 horses
• Stocking rate at new AML: 4.1 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Twin Peaks Roundup, Day 3.

They crossed the channel yesterday and the auction begins today, according to a report by WMDT News of Salisbury, MD.

The herd makes the return trip tomorrow, minus the youngsters, with the exception of a few “buy backs.”

The official guide explains the process from start to finish.

RELATED: Chincoteague Ponies Hit the Water in Two Weeks.

The incident began on July 17.  Gather stats through July 27:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Captured: 439, up from 346 Day 9
• Average daily take: 39.9
• Capture goal: 1,900
• Removal goal: 1,800
• Returned: None, no change from Day 9
• Deaths: 10, up from 8 on Day 9
• Shipped: 355, up from 319 on Day 9

Two mares were put down on Day 11 due to pre-existing conditions.  They’d be alive today if there was no roundup.  The death rate is 2.3%.

The total includes 161 stallions, 201 mares and 77 foals.

Youngsters represented 17.5% of the animals captured.  Of the adults, 44.5% were male and 55.5% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 18% per year.

A better estimate would be 13% per year assuming a 5% death rate.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The Complex and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 11 ended with 74 unaccounted-for animals.

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

Other statistics:

• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 821
• Forage assigned to horses: 9,852 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 3,475
• Forage liberated to date: 5,268 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 4,390 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 49,188 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: 4,099
• True AML: 4,911
• Stocking rate at new AML: 3.0 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from Complex by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Triple B Roundup, Day 9.

The incident began on July 15.  Gather stats through July 27:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Captured: 725, up from 665 on Day 11
• Average daily take: 55.8
• Capture goal: 1,050
• Removal goal: 750
• Returned: None, no change from Day 11
• Deaths: 3, up from 2 on Day 11
• Shipped: 633, up from 565 on Day 11

A horse was put down, presumably, on Day 12.  No details were given.

The death rate is 0.4%.

The total, based on the daily reports, includes 267 stallions, 322 mares and 136 foals.

The eighteen horses taken off the range in Part 1 have been omitted.

Youngsters represented 18.8% of the animals captured.  Of the adults, 45.3% were male and 54.7% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 19% per year.

Fourteen percent would be a better estimate assuming a death rate of 5% per year.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 13 ended with 89 unaccounted-for animals.

The capture goal is 69% complete.

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

Other statistics:

• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 235
• Forage assigned to horses: 2,820 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 1,385
• Forage liberated to date: 8,700 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 7,250 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 6,840 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 570
• True AML: 805
• Stocking rate at new AML: 4.2 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Piceance Roundup, Part 2 Day 11.

The plaintiffs allege that the planned removal of 1,000 wild horses and burros will occur without the benefit of current data and environmental assessments related to rangeland conditions, according to a news release dated July 26.

A link to the complaint was not provided.

Helicopters are the fastest way to bring resource consumption in line with the specifications of the land-use plans but they don’t do much for rangeland health.

RELATED: Blue Wing Roundup Announced

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses said yesterday in a news release that at least 840 wild horses and burros have been sold at slaughter auctions since 2019 as a result of the Adoption Incentive Program.

Adopters pocket the cash then dump the animals at livestock auctions, where they are sold to kill buyers for slaughter in Canada and Mexico, according to the announcement.

Western Horse Watchers estimates that during the same period, CAAWH and its army of nitwits got rid of at least 2,000 wild horses with the Montana Solution.

Who’s the greater threat to these animals?

When you spray your home for bugs, do you refer to them as cherished cockroaches while you apply the pesticide, as CAAWH does to wild horses?

RELATED: New Rules for AIP Announced.

The incident will begin on or about August 1, according to a BLM news release, with five HMAs and four HAs affected.

Helicopters will push the animals into the traps and operations will be open to public observation.

The capture and removal goals are 200 wild horses and 800 wild burros.  No animals will be treated with fertility control and returned to the range.

The Complex covers about 1.2 million total acres northeast Pyramid Lake, NV and has a combined AML of 553 horses and 90 burros, equivalent to 598 horses.  Refer to Table 1 in the Final EA for resource enforcement actions therein.

The HAs are no longer managed for horses and burros and have an AML of zero.

The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.  The HAs are not included.’

The current population is thought to be 1,695 horses and 1,327 burros.

The HMAs lie within the massive Blue Wing – Seven Troughs Allotment, not shown on the map.

Captured horses will be taken to the off-range corrals at Palomino Valley, NV and burros will be shipped to the off-range corrals in Axtell, UT.

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

The EA was posted with other project documents in ePlanning.

The incident began on July 23.  Gather stats through July 25:

• Target: Horses and burros
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Horses captured: 588, up from 231 on Day 1
• Burros captured: 2, up from zero on Day 1
• Average daily take: 196 horses, 0.7 burros
• Capture goal: 1,978 horses, 339 burros
• Removal goal: 1,868 horses, 339 burros
• Returned: None, no change from Day 1
• Horse deaths: 6, up from 2 on Day 1
• Burro deaths: None, no change from Day 1
• Horses shipped: 366, up from 104 on Day 1
• Burros shipped: 1, up from zero on Day 1

A foal died on Day 2 after collapsing in the pen due to pneumonia.  Three horses were put down on Day 3.  An incident in the trap resulted in the escape of ten horses.

The horse death rate is 1.0%.

The horse total includes 228 stallions, 266 mares and 94 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.0% of the horses captured.  Of the adults, 46.2% were male and 53.8% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year, a figure used by land managers to predict herd sizes, with a birth rate of 16%.

Body condition scores on Day 3 ranged from 4 to 5.

Trapping continued at Bull Flat in Lassen County.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.

Day 3 ended with 216 unaccounted-for horses and 1 unaccounted-for burro.

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

Other statistics:

• AML: 758 horses and 116 burros, equivalent to 816 horses
• Forage assigned to horses and burros: 9,792 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 3,316 horses and 401 burros, equivalent to 3,516 horses
• Forage liberated to date: 7,068 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 5,890 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 27,178 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Animals displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 2,264 horses
• True AML: 3,022 horses and 116 burros, equivalent to 3,080 horses
• Stocking rate at new AML: 4.1 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Twin Peaks Roundup in Progress.

They’re safer in the wild [but not from the advocates] according to a spokesman for CAAWH in this not-ready-for-prime-time report by KREX News in Grand Junction.

If the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses had its way, they’re wouldn’t be any foals or pregnant mares for helicopters to chase.

Indeed, there wouldn’t be any horses to capture at all, because its army of nitwits would have taken most of them off the range with the Montana Solution, leaving their food and water to the public-lands ranchers, as specified in the land-use plans.

RELATED: Foals and Pregnant Mares Should Not Be Chased by Helicopters?

Nevada Vanadium has reached an agreement with Fish Creek Ranch to lease water rights to meet the water supply requirements of the project for a period of ten years, according to Section 3.19.2.2 of the Draft EIS.

Figure 2 in Supplemental Environmental Report 1 shows the arrangement.

As specified in the agreement, Fish Creek Ranch would remove 818 acres of alfalfa from production during the term of the lease to compensate for water that would otherwise be used for irrigation.

Water would pumped from a take-off near Fish Creek Springs to the project site.

A Rangeland Management Specialist with the Battle Mountain District confirmed that Fish Creek Ranch qualifies as a base property and has grazing preference on the Fish Creek Allotment, which overlaps the project area.

The advocates issued a bizarre statement last week claiming that “BLM NV is preparing to dig in and use millions more gallons of precious water for mining operations while ousting federally protected wild horses from their homes, and continue the destruction of our lands and wildlife.”

The SER and EIS were posted to the Gibellini project folder in ePlanning.

RELATED: Vanadium Mine Coming to Fish Creek HMA?

The incident began on July 17.  Gather stats through July 25:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Captured: 346, up from 285 Day 7
• Average daily take: 38.4
• Capture goal: 1,900
• Removal goal: 1,800
• Returned: None, no change from Day 7
• Deaths: 8, up from 6 on Day 7
• Shipped: 319, up from 246 on Day 7

A stallion died of a broken neck on Day 9 and a mare was euthanized, increasing the death rate to 2.3%.

The total includes 118 stallions, 163 mares and 65 foals.

Youngsters represented 18.8% of the animals captured.  Of the adults, 42.0% were male and 58.0% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 19% per year.

A better estimate would be 14% per year assuming a 5% death rate.

Abnormal sex ratios are often found in herds subject to the Montana Solution but not double-digit birth rates.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The Complex and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 9 ended with 19 unaccounted-for animals.

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

Other statistics:

• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 821
• Forage assigned to horses: 9,852 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 3,475
• Forage liberated to date: 4,152 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 3,460 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 49,188 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: 4,099
• True AML: 4,911
• Stocking rate at new AML: 3.0 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from Complex by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Triple B Roundup, Day 7.

The incident began on July 15.  Gather stats through July 25:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Captured: 665, up from 616 on Day 9
• Average daily take: 60.5
• Capture goal: 1,050
• Removal goal: 750
• Returned: None, no change from Day 9
• Deaths: 2, no change from Day 9
• Shipped: 565, up from 444 on Day 9

The death rate is 0.3%.

The total, based on the daily reports, includes 247 stallions, 297 mares and 121 foals.

The eighteen horses taken off the range in Part 1 have been omitted.

Youngsters represented 18.2% of the animals captured.  Of the adults, 45.4% were male and 54.6% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 18% per year.

Thirteen percent would be a better estimate assuming a death rate of 5% per year.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 11 ended with 98 unaccounted-for animals.

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

Other statistics:

• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 235
• Forage assigned to horses: 2,820 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 1,385
• Forage liberated to date: 7,980 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 6,650 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 6,840 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 570
• True AML: 805
• Stocking rate at new AML: 4.2 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Piceance Roundup, Part 2 Day 9.