Five horses were taken on Day 2, followed by 34 on Day 3, bringing the total to 65.

No horses have escaped, none have been shipped and no deaths have been reported.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

Foals represented 20% of the horses captured.

Of the adults, 56% were male and 44% were female.

With a capture and removal goals of 122, the incident is approximately 53% complete.

The HA is managed principally for livestock, in defiance of the original statute.

RELATED: West Douglas Roundup in Progress.

The incident started today as scheduled, with 26 horses captured, none shipped, none released and no deaths.

RELATED: On the Eve of the West Douglas Roundup.

A new project was opened in ePlanning yesterday but no documents were posted.

Three HMAs are affected.

The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and livestock encroachment.

Tracy Wilson, defeatist, pesticide pusher and ranching sympathizer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, said of a similar problem on the Virginia Range “As you start reducing the amount of available space and forage, then you need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”

The statement, and its underlying beliefs, easily translate to wild burros.

The incident started on August 24.

As of August 26, 38 burros have been captured and 38 have been shipped, with none released and no deaths.

The location of the trap site was not given.

Two areas on the California side of the Colorado River are targeted.

RELATED: BLM Approves Another Nuisance Removal Near Cibola-Trigo HMA.

The incident will begin on September 6 according to yesterday’s news release.

Three HMAs in western Idaho are affected.

The capture goal is 220 and the removal goal is 142.

Up to 38 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the area with up to 40 stallions.

Helicopters will push the horses into the traps and operations will be open to limited public observation.  (For a discussion of observation difficulties, watch this video.)

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

Gather stats and daily reports should be posted to the Idaho gather page but as of this morning a link has not been added.

The Owyhee HMAs are managed primarily for animal agriculture, denoted by green in the following map, the #1 driver of wild horse removals.

Drilling and mining affect anywhere from a few acres to a few thousand acres while permitted grazing devours entire HMAs and beyond.

RELATED: Owyhee Decision Published.

Dates and locations are given in this BLM news release.

Online attendance was not offered.

The project anticipates, but does not control or evaluate, changes to HMAs affected by the RSGA consent decree.

RELATED: Rock Springs RMP Update Out for Public Review.

It’s not managed for wild horses due to limited food and water, according to a news release dated August 28, but it’s overlapped by an allotment that offers 82.2 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to 6.8 wild horses per thousand public acres.

The HA, listed as West Douglas Creek in the 2023 HA/HMA Report, covers 127,649 total acres, including 122,909 public acres in western Colorado.

The AML is zero.

Most of the horses were removed in a 2021 roundup.

Roughly one out of three died the following year in off-range holding.

Now, they’re coming for the remnant.

The incident, set to begin on September 1, will be carried out with helicopters and will be open to public observation.

It is on the July 13 schedule.

The current population is thought to be 122 according to the gather page.

Captured animals will be taken to the Cañon City off-range corrals, site of the 2022 virus outbreak that proved fatal only to West Douglas horses.

RELATED: How Many Wild Horses Can the West Douglas HA Support?

At Theodore Roosevelt National Park with The Cookin’ Camper.

There are no voices for the horses in this story by The Nevada Independent about the Antelope-North roundup, not even the advocates.

Livestock in the Antelope Complex (North + South) receive over seven times more forage than the horses.

That resource would support over 6,000 horses, on top of the 789 allowed by plan.

You don’t have a wild horse problem, you have a resource management problem.

Areas identified for wild horses are managed primarily for cattle and sheep.

Overpopulation means they’re trying to reclaim some of their food from the poor ranchers.

Their punishment is to waste away in feedlots, the domain of animal agriculture.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North Over.

Your host is not sure if the materials were intended for public consumption but the page is working as of this morning.

Links in the following comments include local versions in case the site goes dark.

Of immediate interest is the current agreement [local] between NDA and CAAWH which includes a stipulation for reductions in herd size over the 12-month period, contradicting a goal in the Darting SOP [local] about stabilizing population growth.

Progress reports, monthly and yearly, were posted to a separate page.

The Year 4 Report [local], covering 2022-2023, indicates 1,225 mares received 1,691 doses of PZP, a restricted-use pesticide.

One hundred and forty two foals were born during the period, with two removed and 41 deceased or missing and presumed dead.

With the reduction in birth rates, coupled with the activity of predators, many herd treatment areas experienced a population decline.

With a population of 3,507 confirmed living horses, the birth rate is four percent, too low to sustain the current herd.  It is declining as the bureaucrats desire.

A list of approved properties for darting [local] was also provided.

Curiously, the page has a list of training materials, including a link to literature at the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception with password!

The final link to The Pinto Post, a monthly newsletter that covers the incredible work of the many wild horse organizations in the area, is not correct but you can reach it here.

RELATED: What’s So Important about the Virginia Range?

A debate between Scott Beckstead, director of campaigns for Animal Wellness Action, and Nevada State Senator Ira Hansen will begin at 6:00 PM Pacific time at the Elko Convention Center, according to an EIN news release dated August 25.

The event can be viewed online.  Registration is required.

Hansen, a voice for rural areas in the state, led the opposition to SB90 earlier this year.

Beckstead disputes his claims, arguing that substandard conditions on Nevada public lands are caused by hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, not wild horses.

A video of the debate will be posted to the AWA YouTube channel.

A gather page has been created but no dates were given.

The incident does not appear on the latest schedule.

RELATED: BLM Approves Another Nuisance Removal Near Cibola-Trigo HMA.

The incident started and finished on August 23, with 38 horses captured, 24 shipped, 14 released and no deaths.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

The gather page does not indicate if any of the returned mares were treated with fertility control pesticides.

The pre-gather population was thought to be 66.

The plan was to capture all of them and return a nonreproducing herd back to the HMA.

RELATED: Hog Creek Roundup Delayed by Weather.

Dig in.

Previous years.

The incident was set to begin yesterday but the gather page, just created, says it may start tomorrow.

RELATED: Hog Creek Roundup Announced.

A new project was opened in ePlanning yesterday and an approved CX was copied to the document folder.

There were no opportunities for public comment.

Under the Proposed Action, the only alternative considered, the agency will remove 100 wild burros from the Picacho State Recreation Area and 75 burros from private lands south of Palo Verde, CA.

The incident, to be carried out with baited traps, was prompted by complaints involving property damage and concerns about public health and safety.

It does not appear on the latest schedule.

The National Data Viewer shows the arrangement.

Attachments 1 and 2 in the CX provide details.

Given that both locations are on the California side of the Colorado River, maybe they should be associated with the Chocolate-Mule Mountains HMA?

The HAs are unfit for wild horses and burros, supposedly.

RELATED: BLM to Yank More Horses and Burros from Cibola-Trigo HMA?

Six organizations will receive grants ranging from $77,331 to $468,033 to support the agency’s mission of managing and protecting wild horses and burros on public lands, according to a news release dated August 21.

Four of the programs involve nonmotorized removal.

Two involve educational outreach.

All are anti-horse/pro-ranching.

In Oregon, High Desert Strategies received the lion’s share of the funds for application of fertility control pesticides.  They are already doing this.  Western Horse Watchers has been unable to find their web site.  They may have a presence on socialist media.

In Colorado, Piceance Mustangs received a six-figure shot-in-the-arm to bolster their pest control efforts.  The group was featured last month in a story about GonaCon darting.  They make no effort to conceal their disdain for wild horses.

In Utah, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses will poison the Cedar Mountain mares with an ovary-killing pesticide while collaborating with one of the permittees.

Are you surprised by any of this?  They’re all frauds!

As for the lack of predators, they were eradicated years ago by state wildlife agencies and local inhabitants because of their attraction to calves and lambs.

RELATED: New Grants Available for Wild Horse and Burro Management.

The incident concluded on August 20, with 63 horses captured, 63 shipped, none released and no deaths.

The number of unaccounted-for animals was zero.

The pre-gather population was thought to be 103.

The goal was 83.

The capture total included 24 stallions, 32 mares and 7 foals.

Youngsters represented 11.1% of the horses gathered.

Of the adults, 42.9% were male and 57.1% were female.

Approximately 20 mares will be returned to the area after treatment with a fertility control pesticide.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing, with livestock receiving 90% of the authorized forage, neglecting wildlife.

RELATED: Palomino Buttes, Stinkingwater Roundups Announced.

A 90-day comment period began on August 18 for a Draft EIS covering changes to the land use plan administered by the Rock Springs Field Office, according to a BLM news release dated August 17.

The project anticipates changes to the HMAs affected by the RSGA consent decree approved in 2022, cleared for implementation in 2023 and now subject to legal challenges by several advocacy groups.

Go to the placeholder section under Biological Resources (BR) – Wild Horses (4900) on page 2-85 in the EIS (page 155 in the pdf).

The scope of the changes is not accurate, a potential comment on the EIS.

Section 3.9 says the Wild Horse Management EIS will amend the management plan for the Adobe Town, Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek, and White Mountain HMAs, but there were no changes to White Mountain in the latest iteration.

Section 3.16 indicates there are 304,261 active AUMs within the planning area on 79 grazing allotments covering approximately 5.27 million acres, which works out to 57.7 AUMs per year per thousand acres, equivalent to 4.8 wild horses per thousand acres.

However, public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres according to the bureaucrats (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

The total number of animals allowed by plan (upper end of AML) is actually 23,866 wild horses and 2,919 wild burros according to the last table in the 2023 HA/HMA Report, so the total forage requirement would be

23,866 × 12 + 2,919 × (12 ÷ 2) = 286,392 + 17,514 = 303,906 AUMs per year

Therefore, livestock in one BLM field office receive roughly the same amount of forage as wild horses and burros in ten western states!

Moreover, the disparity will increase as the Rock Springs HMAs are zeroed out.

At the McCullough Peaks HMA with T.D.307 Photography.