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

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (advocates have a bettter way)
• Captured: 620, up from 462 on Day 7
• Average daily take: 68.9
• Capture goal: 700
• Removal goal: 400
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 6, up from 1 on Day 7
• Shipped: 444, up from 316 on Day 7

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

A stallion was put down on Day 8 due to a broken leg, followed by four more stallions on Day 9 due to blindness and other deformities.

The death rate is 1.0%.

The capture total includes 243 stallions, 250 mares and 127 foals.

Youngsters represented 20.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 49.3% were male and 50.7% were female.

The observed percentage of foals suggests the herd growth rate may be closer to 16% per year, given a death rate of 5% per year.

Body condition scores were not provided.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 9 ended with 170 unaccounted-for animals.

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

The capture goal is 88% complete.  Operations will likely conclude this week.

Other statistics:

• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 390
• Forage assigned to horses: 4,680 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 920
• Forage liberated to date: 7,440 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 6,200 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 17,068 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 1,422
• True AML: 1,812
• Stocking rate at new AML: 8.6 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

How can the HMA be overpopulated with 920 wild horses when the BLM authorizes privately owned livestock equivalent to 1,422 wild horses in the same area, on top of the 390 horses allowed by plan?

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The project will develop a management plan for an area of critical environmental concern in northwestern Nevada, according to the description in ePlanning.

The project map puts the location at the northeastern corner of the Bitner HMA, part of the Surprise Complex, and inside the Bitner Allotment.

The allotment may stay in the Improve category permanently because of the ACEC.

The scoping letter is actually a handout that explains the project.

Comments will be accepted through September 30.

The allotment offers 69.1 AUMs per year per thousand acres to livestock, while the HMA offers a paltry 5.6 AUMs per year per thousand acres to wild horses.  Why is that?

At Grayson Highlands State Park with SemperScott’s.

The incident began on September 10.  Gather stats through September 24:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (advocates have a better way)
• Captured: 710, up from 639 on Day 13
• Average daily take: 47.3
• Capture goal: 1,076
• Removal goal: 1,036
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 21, up from 17 on Day 13
• Shipped: 654, up from 551 on Day 13

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

One horse was put down on Day 14 due to pre-existing conditions, followed by three more on Day 15.  They survived the chase and would probably be alive today if there was no roundup.

The death rate jumped from 2.7% to 3.0%.

The capture total includes 263 stallions, 331 mares and 116 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.3% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 44.3% were male and 55.7% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 16% per year.

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.

Day 15 ended with 35 unaccounted-for animals.

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

The capture and removal goals at the gather page have not changed despite new targets in the latest schedule.

Other statistics:

• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 952
• Forage assigned to horses: 11,424 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 1,593
• Forage liberated to date: 8,520 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 7,100 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Calico Roundup, Day 13.

Operations concluded on or about September 21, according to information at the gather page, with 243 burros captured, 242 shipped and one dead.

The gather page indicated capture and removal goals of 275 each but the latest schedule puts the targets at 225 each.  The incident did not appear in the previous version.

The death on September 17 was attributed to the roundup.  No details were given.

The death rate was 0.4%.

The capture total included 106 jacks, 93 jennies and 43 foals.

Youngsters represented 17.7% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 53.3% were male and 46.7% were female.

The daily reports did not provide breakdowns of jacks, jennies and foals.

The sum of those figures falls short of the total by one.

The incident was not announced at the BLM news site.

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The incident began on September 17.  Gather stats through September 23:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (advocates have a bettter way)
• Captured: 462, up from 258 on Day 5
• Average daily take: 66.0
• Capture goal: 700
• Removal goal: 400
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 1, up from zero on Day 5
• Shipped: 316, up from 217 on Day 5

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

A stallion was put down on Day 6 due to blindness in one eye.  He’d be alive today if there was no roundup.

The capture total includes 172 stallions, 195 mares and 95 foals.

Youngsters represented 20.6% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 46.9% were male and 53.1% were female.

The percentage of foals has decreased since Day 5, suggesting the herd growth rate may be closer to 16% per year, given a death rate of 5% per year.

Body condition scores were not provided.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 7 ended with 145 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): 390
• Forage assigned to horses: 4,680 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 920
• Forage liberated to date: 5,544 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 4,620 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 17,068 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 1,422
• True AML: 1,812
• Stocking rate at new AML: 8.6 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

The government collects $23,042 per year in grazing fees from ranching activity inside the HMA while it spends $2,595,150 per year to care for the horses displaced thereby.

Would you say that permitted grazing is a wise use of the public lands?

RELATED: Cedar Mountain Roundup, Day 5.

The latest schedule, dated September 19, puts the capture goal at 1,556 and the removal goal at 1,445.

The targets at the gather page are still 1,076 and 1,036.

A schedule for FY 2023, which begins on October 1, has not been posted.

RELATED: Calico Roundup, Day 13.

She had severe damage to her lower right leg and was put down by the advocates, according to a story by The News & Observer of Raleigh, NC.

Of eight foals born this year, two have died.

A herd of 101 would normally produce around twenty foals per year.

The loss takes some pressure off the darting program.

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The incident began on September 10.  Gather stats through September 22:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (advocates have a better way)
• Captured: 639, up from 508 on Day 11
• Average daily take: 49.2
• Capture goal: 1,076
• Removal goal: 1,036
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 17, up from 15 on Day 11
• Shipped: 551, up from 478 on Day 11

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

Two stallions were put down on Day 13.  The death rate is 2.7%.

The capture total includes 230 stallions, 302 mares and 107 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.7% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 43.2% were male and 56.8% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 17% per year.

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.

Day 13 ended with 71 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): 952
• Forage assigned to horses: 11,424 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 1,593
• Forage liberated to date: 7,668 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 6,390 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Calico Roundup, Day 11.

The incident began on September 17.  Gather stats through September 21:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (advocates have a bettter way)
• Captured: 258, up from 223 on Day 3
• Average daily take: 51.6
• Capture goal: 700
• Removal goal: 400
• Returned: None
• Deaths: None
• Shipped: 217, up from 153 on Day 3

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

The capture total includes 100 stallions, 100 mares and 58 foals.

Youngsters represented 22.5% of the animals gathered.

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

The herd growth rate may be close to 20% per year, a figure used by land managers to predict herd sizes and justify management actions, given a birth rate of 23% per year.

Body condition scores were not provided.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 5 ended with 41 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): 390
• Forage assigned to horses: 4,680 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 920
• Forage liberated to date: 3,096 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 2,580 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 17,068 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 1,422
• True AML: 1,812
• Stocking rate at new AML: 8.6 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Cedar Mountain Roundup, Day 3.

Readers of Western Horse Watchers will not be suprised by anything in this article, writted by a trained PZP darter and appearing today in CounterPunch.

Is she trying to atone for her sins?  The logo on her T-shirt should say In Defense of Livestock.

The column may have been written over the summer, around the time of the Piceance roundup.  It is not a plug for the Montana Solution.

The management plans assign most of the resources to privately owned livestock in areas set aside for wild horses.

Once you understand that, all of the downstream events, referred to on these pages as resource enforcement actions, which include roundups, darting programs, sex ratio skewing, adoption, training and sale with or without limitations, make perfect sense.

Today the report jumped from September 19 to September 21.  Results for September 20 were not published.

More information may be available on socialist media but Western Horse Watchers won’t read it or link to it.

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Unknown
• Captured: 100
• Average daily take: 10
• Capture goal: Unknown
• Removal goal: Unknown
• Returned: Unknown
• Deaths: Unknown
• Shipped: Unknown
• Unaccounted-for: Unknown
• Location of trap: Unknown
• Destination of captured animals: Unknown
• Horses allowed by plan (AML): 402
• Pre-gather population: Unknown
• Forage assigned to livestock inside WHT: 15,711 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from WHT by permitted grazing: 1,309
• True AML: 1,711
• Stocking rate at new AML: 6.6 horses per thousand acres

The government collects $21,210 per year in grazing fees from ranching activity inside the WHT while it spends $2,388,925 per year to care for the horses displaced thereby.

Would you say that permitted grazing is a wise use of the public lands?

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The incident began on September 10.  Gather stats through September 20:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (advocates have a better way)
• Captured: 508, up from 459 on Day 9
• Average daily take: 46.2
• Capture goal: 1,076
• Removal goal: 1,036
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 15, up from 12 on Day 9
• Shipped: 478, up from 404 on Day 9

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

Three horses were put down on Day 10 as acts of mercy, raising the death rate from 2.6% to 3.0%.

The capture total includes 197 stallions, 233 mares and 78 foals.

Youngsters represented 15.4% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 45.8% were male and 54.2% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 15% per year.

A better estimate would be 10% per year, assuming a death rate of 5% per year.

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.

Day 11 ended with 15 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): 952
• Forage assigned to horses: 11,424 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 1,593
• Forage liberated to date: 6,096 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 5,080 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Calico Roundup, Day 9.

The project targets animals outside the HMA, according to the CX, but the map in Attachment 2 indicates inside the HMA.

The Proposed Action would capture 85 burros and 15 horses on private property near the CA-AZ state line.

The CX was posted to the project folder with no opportunities for public comment.

Burros were removed from the area last month and last year.

The management plan allows 150 wild horses and 165 wild burros.

The roundup may or may not be announced at the BLM news site and would likely occur in FY 2023, which begins on October 1.

The incident began on September 17.  Gather stats through September 19:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (advocates have a bettter way)
• Captured: 223, up from 108 on Day 1
• Average daily take: 74.3
• Capture goal: 700
• Removal goal: 400
• Returned: None
• Deaths: None
• Shipped: 153, up from zero on Day 1

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

The capture total includes 83 stallions, 87 mares and 53 foals.

Youngsters represented 23.8% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 48.8% were male and 51.2% were female.

The herd may be growing at a rate of 20% per year, a figure used by land managers to predict herd sizes and justify management actions, given a birth rate of 24% per year.

Body condition scores were not provided.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMA and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 3 ended with 70 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): 390
• Forage assigned to horses: 4,680 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 920
• Forage liberated to date: 2,676 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 2,230 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 17,068 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMA by permitted grazing: 1,422
• True AML: 1,812
• Stocking rate at new AML: 8.6 horses per thousand acres
• Horses displaced from HMA by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Cedar Mountain Roundup Begins.

So says the writer of an opinion piece in the Carlsbad Current Argus.

You only need to look at the data.

The BLM assigns most of the forage on public lands to privately owned cattle and sheep, even in areas set aside for horses and burros.

Horses and burros receive about 324,000 AUMs per year on 27 million acres, compared to 12 million AUMs per year on 155 million acres for livestock.

Livestock can access 5.7 times more land than horses and burros, but the number of animals allowed by plan, equivalent to one million wild horses, is 37 times higher.

Ranching interests control the range, not wild horses.

RELATED: Livestock Outnumber Horses and Burros on Public Lands?

The incident began on September 10.  Gather stats through September 18:

• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly
• Captured: 459, up from 351 on Day 7
• Average daily take: 51.0
• Capture goal: 1,076
• Removal goal: 1,036
• Returned: None
• Deaths: 12, up from 8 on Day 7
• Shipped: 404, up from 251 on Day 7

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

Three horses were put down on Day 8, followed by one more on Day 9.  Most would be alive today if there was no roundup.

The death rate is 2.6%.

The capture total includes 180 stallions, 208 mares and 71 foals.

Youngsters represented 15.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 46.4% were male and 53.6% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 16% per year.

A better estimate would be 11% per year, assuming a death rate of 5% per year.

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.

Day 9 ended with 43 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): 952
• Forage assigned to horses: 11,424 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 1,593
• Forage liberated to date: 5,508 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 4,590 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: Unknown
• True AML: Unknown
• Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
• Horses displaced from Complex by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

RELATED: Calico Roundup, Day 7.

Horses have the day off.  At Custer State Park with daejeon0607.

Immunocontraceptive vaccines such as PZP are currently being used in over 75 areas managed for wild horses and burros by the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, according to the Final EA for management actions at the Marietta WBR.  Go to page 26 in the pdf.

The Park Service shut off the darting program at Assateague Island in 2016.

The latest roundup and fertility control schedule shows 14 HMAs with fertility control programs.

Where else is it in use and who are the organizers?

RELATED: Proposals Sought to Catch, Treat, Release Wild Horses and Burros.

The incident started yesterday, as planned, with 108 horses captured, none shipped and no deaths.

The gather page indicates a capture goal of 700, consistent with the latest schedule, but does not specify a removal goal.

The schedule puts that number at 400, suggesting that many cherished mares will receive fertility control vaccines and IUDs, followed by return to the HMA.

RELATED: Cedar Mountain Pest Removal Starts This Week.