The incident started on July 1.  Results through July 15:

• Scope: North Lander Complex
• Target: Horses
• AML: 536
• Pre-gather population: 3,035
• True AML: 4,616
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals: Gather 2,766, remove 2,716
• Captured: 2,247, up from 1,924 on Day 13
• Shipped: 2,046, up from 1,661 on Day 13
• Released: None
• Deaths: 13, up from 10 on Day 13
• Average daily take: 149.8
• Unaccounted-for animals: 188

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

A mare died of a broken neck on Day 14 while being transported in a trailer.  Another mare died of a brain aneurysm but no details were given.  A foal was put down for a spinal deformity.

The death rate is 0.6%.

The capture total includes 876 stallions, 953 mares and 418 foals.

Youngsters represented 18.6% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 13% per year.  Land managers often use a growth rate of 20% per year to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Of the adults, 47.9% were male and 52.1% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

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

• Forage: 26,964 AUMs per year
• Water: 22,470 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 20 mares will be treated with fertility control pesticides and returned to the range but this is not discussed at the gather page.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: North Lander Roundup, Day 13.

The incident started on July 8.  Results through July 14:

• Scope: Blue Wing Complex
• Target: Horses and burros
• AML: 555 horses and 90 burros
• Pre-gather population: 1,912 horses and 476 burros
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Snuff out new life with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals
  • Horses: Gather 1,373 and remove 1,333
  • Burros: Gather 356 and remove 356
• Captured
  • Horses: 255, up from 94 on Day 5
  • Burros: 360, no change from Day 5
• Shipped
  • Horses: 97, up from zero on Day 5
  • Burros: 353, up from 303 on Day 5
• Released
  • Horses: 1, up from zero on Day 5
  • Burros: None
• Deaths
  • Horses: 5, up from zero on Day 5
  • Burros: 8, no change from Day 5
• Average daily take
  • Horses: 36.4
  • Burros: 51.4
• Unaccounted-for animals
  • Horses: 152
  • Burros: -1
• 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

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Horses

A stallion was released (or escaped) on Day 7.

Two stallions were dispatched on Day 6, one due to injuries sustained in capture and the other due to a pre-existing condition.  Two stallions and a mare were put down on Day 7 for pre-existing conditions, lifting the death rate to 2%.  All would be alive today if there was no roundup.

The capture total includes 103 stallions, 99 mares and 53 foals.

Youngsters represented 20.8% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 51% were male and 49% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

Burros

More burros were processed than caught, throwing the numbers out of balance.

Captured – Shipped – Released – Dead = 360 – 353 – 0 – 8 = -1

The death rate is 2.2%.

The capture total includes 186 jacks, 152 jennies and 22 foals.

Youngsters represented 6.1% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 55% were male and 45% were female.

General

The location of the trap site is not known.  Five HMAs are involved.

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

• Forage: 5,208 AUMs per year
• Water: 4,340 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 40 mares will be treated with a fertility control pesticide but this is not mentioned at the gather page.

There are no such plans for the burros.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Blue Wing Roundup, Day 5.

In eastern Kentucky, probably, with Fishin’ with Tate.

The incident started on July 1.  Results through July 13:

• Scope: North Lander Complex
• Target: Horses
• AML: 536
• Pre-gather population: 3,035
• True AML: 4,616
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals: Gather 2,766, remove 2,716
• Captured: 1,924, up from 1,640 on Day 11
• Shipped: 1,661, up from 1,461 on Day 11
• Released: None
• Deaths: 10, no change from Day 11
• Average daily take: 148.0
• Unaccounted-for animals: 253

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The death rate is 0.5%.

The capture total includes 760 stallions, 812 mares and 352 foals.

Youngsters represented 18.3% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 13% per year.

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

Of the adults, 48.3% were male and 51.7% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

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

• Forage: 23,088 AUMs per year
• Water: 19,240 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 20 mares will be treated with fertility control pesticides and returned to the range but this is not discussed at the gather page.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: North Lander Roundup, Day 11.

The incident started on July 8.  Results through July 12:

• Scope: Blue Wing Complex
• Target: Horses and burros
• AML: 555 horses and 90 burros
• Pre-gather population: 1,912 horses and 476 burros
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Snuff out new life with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals
  • Horses: Gather 1,373 and remove 1,333
  • Burros: Gather 356 and remove 356
• Captured
  • Horses: 94, up from zero on Day 3
  • Burros: 360, up from 308 on Day 3
• Shipped
  • Horses: None
  • Burros: 303, up from 108 on Day 3
• Released
  • Horses: None
  • Burros: None
• Deaths
  • Horses: None
  • Burros: 8, up from 6 on Day 3
• Average daily take
  • Horses: 18.8
  • Burros: 72.0
• Unaccounted-for animals
  • Horses: 94
  • Burros: 49
• 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

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Horses

Capture began on Day 5.

The capture total includes 39 stallions, 36 mares and 19 foals.

Youngsters represented 20.2% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 52% were male and 48% were female.

Burros

A jenny died of colic on Day 5.  Location unknown.

Another jenny was found dead in a truck when it arrived at Indian Lakes.

The death rate is 2.2%.

The capture total includes 186 jacks, 152 jennies and 22 foals.

Youngsters represented 6.1% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 55% were male and 45% were female.

General

The location of the trap site was not given.  Five HMAs are involved.

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

• Forage: 3,288 AUMs per year
• Water: 2,740 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 40 mares will be treated with a fertility control pesticide but this is not mentioned at the gather page.

There are no such plans for the burros.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Blue Wing Roundup, Day 3.

The complaint alleges that permitted grazing in three BLM allotments has threatened endangered species in riparian areas along the Big Sandy River.

The news release said the agency’s failure to control illegal grazing turns streams and streamside habitats into trampled cesspools.

The allotments overlap the Big Sandy HMA, an area set aside for wild burros.

Those animals were not named in the suit and the announcement suggested they had only a minor role in the damage.

The National Data Viewer shows the arrangement.

The Allotment Master Report puts all three in the Improve category.

The auction occurs on July 25 and the return swim happens the next day according to a story by Chesapeake Bay Magazine.

The herd consists of roughly 150 adult wild ponies and 60 to 70 foals living on the Virginia side of Assateague Island, not to be confused with the Maryland side, where death has overtaken life thanks to the Montana Solution.

Download the poster at fire company home page.

Look at the bios for the Colorado Wild Horse Working Group.

• TJ Holmes, head darter in charge at Spring Creek Basin
• Judy Cady of Friends of the Mustangs, purveyor of pesticides at Little Book Cliffs
• Kathy DeGonia, one of the GonaCon gals at Piceance East Douglas
• Stella Trueblood, PZP fanatic at Sand Wash Basin
• Tessa Archibald, trained PZP darter
• Sandra Hagen Solin, representative of CAAWH, a leader in mass sterilization

The group also includes bureaucrats, ranchers and ranching sympathizers.

The horses don’t have a chance.

Do you think anybody on the team would put forward a motion to buy a base property and repurpose its allotment for wild horses?

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Go Big or Go Home Edition.

The incident started on July 1.  Results through July 11:

• Scope: North Lander Complex
• Target: Horses
• AML: 536
• Pre-gather population: 3,035
• True AML: 4,616
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals: Gather 2,766, remove 2,716
• Captured: 1,640, up from 1,317 on Day 9
• Shipped: 1,461, up from 1,138 on Day 9
• Released: None
• Deaths: 10, no change from Day 9
• Average daily take: 149.1
• Unaccounted-for animals: 169

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The death rate is 0.6%.

The capture total includes 636 stallions, 703 mares and 301 foals.

Youngsters represented 18.4% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 13% per year.

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

Of the adults, 47.5% were male and 52.5% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

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

• Forage: 19,680 AUMs per year
• Water: 16,400 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 20 mares will be treated with fertility control pesticides and returned to the range but this is not discussed at the gather page.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: North Lander Roundup, Day 9.

The incident started on July 8.  Results through July 10:

• Scope: Blue Wing Complex
• Target: Horses and burros
• AML: 555 horses and 90 burros
• Pre-gather population: 1,912 horses and 476 burros
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Snuff out new life with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals
  • Horses: Gather 1,373 and remove 1,333
  • Burros: Gather 356 and remove 356
• Captured
  • Horses: None
  • Burros: 308, up from 144 on Day 1
• Shipped
  • Horses: None
  • Burros: 108, up from zero on Day 1
• Released
  • Horses: None
  • Burros: None
• Deaths
  • Horses: None
  • Burros: 6, up from zero on Day 1
• Average daily take
  • Horses: Zero
  • Burros: 102.7
• Unaccounted-for animals
  • Horses: Zero
  • Burros: 194
• 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

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Horses

No horses have been caught.

Burros

A jenny was found dead in a trailer on Day 2 and four animals were dispatched for pre-existing conditions.

A jack was put down on Day 3 for severe arthritis, boosting the death rate to 1.9%.

The capture total includes 159 jacks, 132 jennies and 17 foals.

Youngsters represented 5.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 54.6% were male and 45.4% were female.

General

The location of the trap site was not given.  Five HMAs are involved.

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

• Forage: 1,848 AUMs per year
• Water: 1,540 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 40 mares will be treated with a fertility control pesticide but this is not mentioned at the gather page.

There are no such plans for the burros.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Blue Wing Roundup in Progress.

The document asserts that the 2015 EA for pest control and resource enforcement fully covers the Proposed Action, which will take 90% of the horses off the HMA and return a small subset, including mares treated with PZP, leaving the remnant at low end of AML.

The current population is thought to be 889.

The roundup is on the June 3 schedule with a start date of August 15.

Comments will be accepted through July 19.

The draft DNA was copied to the project folder in ePlanning.

The organization applied the pesticide to two of its four herds, believing that permanent sterility would not occur until seven years of repeated use.

Mares in the Catnip herd (from Sheldon NWR) became infertile after five years.

Application to the Virginia Range herd was stopped at four years.

Four years later, nine out of approximately 36 Virginia Range mares began to cycle again and have foals.

Of those, seven did not survive.

Six died within the first day of birth while a colt died at six months.

He appeared to be a “failure to thrive” foal; thin, retaining a heavy thick coat in the heat of the summer, and suffered from malaise.

On one occasion, a filly was accidentally darted and was observed for several years.

She never became pregnant, while her untreated cohorts were able to get pregnant.

All conditions were the same regarding hay, water and space.  The only difference was her inoculation with PZP.

These and other such cases, such as the disaster on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, where the herd is still shrinking eight years after the darting program was shut off, give you a method for judging the sincerity and veracity of the wild horse advocates.

Most will fail the test.

Studies of the four herds ended in 2016 with the ISPMB collapse.

Adapted from the discussion at the bottom of page 41 in this report.

RELATED: Assessing the Risk of Sterility in PZP Darting Programs.

In this video, Walker and Netherlands argue that snuffing out 600 new lives, ruining the mares and driving the breeding population into the single digits has saved the Salt River herd.

Both women are PZP adherents and close supporters of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.

The disaster on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, where the same technique was applied, was not discussed.

That herd is still shrinking eight years after the darting program was shut off.

Despite this, they claim the pesticide is safe and reversible.

They can apply it as long as they want, stop the treatments whenever they want, and the mares will regain fertility.

It’s possible they could bear fruit after six or seven darts if they have weak immune systems and didn’t respond to the treatments in the first place.

Otherwise they’re toast.

RELATED: Putting the CBD Lawsuit in Perspective.

The incident started on July 1.  Results through July 9:

• Scope: North Lander Complex
• Target: Horses
• AML: 536
• Current population: 3,035
• True AML: 4,616
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals: Gather 2,766, remove 2,716
• Captured: 1,317, up from 1003 on Day 7
• Shipped: 1,138, up from 800 on Day 7
• Released: None
• Deaths: 10, up from 6 on Day 7
• Average daily take: 146.3
• Unaccounted-for animals: 169

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Two foals died in temporary holding on Day 9 due capture myopathy, a condition that needs explanation.  Two stallions were dispatched for pre-existing, but not necessarily life-threatening, conditions.

The death rate, rising slowly but steadily since Day 1, is 0.8%.

The capture total includes 524 stallions, 550 mares and 243 foals.

Youngsters represented 18.5% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 13% per year.

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

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

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

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

• Forage: 15,804 AUMs per year
• Water: 13,170 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 20 mares will be treated with fertility control pesticides and returned to the range but this is not discussed at the gather page.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: North Lander Roundup, Day 7.

The incident started yesterday as scheduled, with 144 burros captured, none shipped, none released and no deaths.

RELATED: Blue Wing Roundup Announced.

A reporter at 9News of Denver looks at current efforts, which will likely result in more wild horses off the range than on.

As for the advocates, they’ve concluded that the ranchers should have the lion’s share of the resources and that the horses would be better off if they weren’t even born.

Walker is a PZP adherent and close supporter of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization.

RELATED: FY24 to See More Horses and Burros Off the Range Than On?

The Park Service took him off the range for being a nuisance according to a story dated July 8 by KFYR News of Bismarck.

The allegation was made by park officials, not a visitor, suggesting they’re still looking for ways to get rid of the horses.

RELATED: Park Service Terminates TRNP Livestock Plan.

They’re questioning the usefulness of the “pesticentric” task force created last year to recommend “humane alternatives” to motorized removal, according to a story posted this morning by The Colorado Sun.

What’s the point of the new working group if the federal government isn’t listening?

State officials said the rollout of the new plan was disrespectful.

The roundup was dropped from the FY24 schedule in June and the BLM has not posted a schedule for FY25 at its herd management page.

Approval of an environmental assessment does not mean a roundup is imminent.

That depends on funding, management priorities, availability of contractors and space in the off-range corrals, among other things.

Advocates with Friends of the Mustangs have been pummeling the Little Book Cliffs mares with PZP for years, skewing the sex ratio in their favor.

There are two mares for every stallion according to the discussion on page 6 of the EA, a condition the BLM hopes to correct in the new plan.

Sometimes the agency skews sex ratios in favor of males to deter population growth.

The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing but surrounding lands are.

RELATED: Turmoil at Little Book Cliffs?

In the Tonto National Forest with Rob Torres Wildlife Photography.

The incident started on July 1.  Results through July 7:

• Scope: North Lander Complex
• Target: Horses
• AML: 536
• Current population: 3,035
• True AML: 4,616
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
• Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
• Goals: Gather 2,766, remove 2,716
• Captured: 1003, up from 823 on Day 5
• Shipped: 800, up from 591 on Day 5
• Released: None
• Deaths: 6, up from 3 on Day 5
• Average daily take: 144.3
• Unaccounted-for animals: 197

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

No horses were captured on Day 6.

A foal was found dead in temporary holding on Day 6 and a colt was dispatched because of malformed vertebrae in the neck.

A filly died of a broken neck on Day 7.

The death rate is 0.6%.

The capture total includes 407 stallions, 408 mares and 188 foals.

Youngsters represented 18.7% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 14% per year.

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

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

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

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

• Forage: 12,036 AUMs per year
• Water: 10.030 gallons per day

The June 3 schedule indicates that 20 mares will be treated with fertility control pesticides and returned to the range but this is not discussed at the gather page.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: North Lander Roundup, Day 5.