The incident began yesterday, according to the gather page, with 13 burros captured, 13 shipped and no deaths.
The location of the trap site was not specified.
Death Toll Rising at Cañon City Off-Range Corrals
Ten more horses died today, according to a statement at the Colorado HMA page, bringing the total to 67.
RELATED: Veterinarians Trying to Identify Cañon City Illness.
Veterinarians Trying to Identify Cañon City Illness
BLM posting updates to this page.
Lab tests in progress. No new deaths reported.
Horses showing signs of illness have been isolated from the population.
Some of the horses captured last August in the West Douglas roundup were tested for equine infectious anemia and were separated from other animals at the corrals until they were cleared of any infections.
Virginia Range Darting Stats
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses posted the numbers to their donations page on EveryAction.
There have been no roundups because the advocates are achieving same results with the Montana Solution. The herd has likely reached the tipping point and is now dying off.
Would you be surprised if they receive support from the bureaucrats and ranchers?
Western Horse Watchers believes they are underreporting (ahem, cough-cough, lying about) the reduction in birth rates, based on trailcam images over the past year.
The mares have received an average of 3.3 treatments each, so they are about two years away from sterilization.
Will the advocates back off, allowing the mares to foal, or will they press on with their anti-horse agenda, ruining the herd but pleasing the bureaucrats and ranchers whom they adore?
RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Program Threatens All Wild Horses.
Motorized Equipment Hearing Set for Today
The meeting, to be livestreamed, begins at 3 PM mountain time.
Helicopter roundups are the fastest way to shift resources back to the public-lands ranchers in areas set aside for wild horses.
The advocates are trying to take market share from the contractors by swaying public opinion in favor of the Montana Solution.
Cañon City Corrals on Lockdown, 57 Horses Dead
An unidentified but highly contagious and fatal disease has spread through the facility since April 23, according to a BLM news release posted today.
There are currently 2,550 horses at the corrals, including those captured from West Douglas and Sand Wash Basin.
Refer to this audio segment by Steamboat Radio of Steamboat Springs, CO.
Challis Roundup Complete
The incident concluded on April 14, according to a statement at the gather page, with 17 horses trapped, 17 shipped and no deaths.
Foals represented 12% of the animals captured. Of the adults, 40% were male and 60% were female.
The capture goal was 70 and the removal goal was 39. Mares returned to the area were to be treated with fertility control.
The pre-gather population was around 224, compared to an AML of 253.
The HMA is managed primarily for livestock, with 79% of the authorized forage directed to permitted grazing.
RELATED: Challis Roundup Announced.
Mustang Monday
Near Steens Mountain with heatherslittlethings.
BLM to Assist NPS in Death Valley Roundup
The incident will begin tomorrow, according to a news release dated April 22, with up to 490 burros gathered from three HAs on the west side of the park. The removal goal was not specified but will likely be identical.
Refer to the maps in Appendix B of the project documents for the arrangement.
Helicopters will push the burros into the traps “at a slow pace” with “care and compassion” and the operation will be open to public observation.
Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page, which does not appear at the site for gathers and removals in California.
Captured animals will be taken to the off-range corrals at Ridgecrest.
Roundups in two of the HAs are listed on page 2 of the latest schedule.
The Decision Record authorizing the actions was signed a year ago.
RELATED: NPS Dissatisfied with Peaceful Valley Rescue, Orders Roundup?
See for Yourself: Do They Look Like They’re Starving?
Doesn’t matter.
If the bureaucrats and ranchers say they’re overpopulated, the advocates, desperate for a seat at the table, jump to attention asking “How many do you want us to eliminate?”
Photo taken April 21, timestamp is off by about 20 hours.
RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Program Threatens All Wild Horses.
After the Rally
Your host brings a water tank over to the pumphouse for bleaching.
Replaced bulb in UV sterilizer and put system back in service.
Took two years to build, documented in this YouTube video.
RELATED: Weather Cooperates for Carson City Rally.
Virginia Range Mustangs Return to Higher Elevations
But they’re not bringing any babies with them.
Trailcams haven’t picked up much activity until recently.
Water system put back in service yesterday after the Carson City Rally.
Weather Cooperates for Carson City Rally
One group demonstrated at the capitol and another in front of the legislature.
Both received strong support from passing motorists.
RELATED: Details Released for Wild Horse Freedom Rally in Carson City.
NPS Dissatisfied with Peaceful Valley Rescue, Orders Roundup?
The Park Service announced today that wild burros will be removed from Death Valley National Park starting on April 25, but did not specify the capture and removal goals.
Helicopters will drive the animals into the traps.
The news release did not indicate if the incident will be open to public observation.
Burros removed from the park will be taken to the off-range corrals at Ridgecrest.
The current population is thought to be around 4,000.
The animals are not federally protected according to the Q&A.
The rescue initially tasked with the removal is still involved.
Will Advocates Wear “Stay Wild” Caps to Wild Horse Rallies?
It’s how they signal to each other that they’re down with the Montana Solution.
Wild horses should be restricted to 20% or less of the authorized forage in their home range and if they’re consuming more than their allocated share of the resources, the best way to get rid of them is PZP, not helicopters.
RELATED: Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Set for Next Weekend.
Strangles Lingers at Wheatland Off-Range Corrals
Some horses are still showing signs of illness, according to a BLM news release, so an adoption event scheduled for May 6 has been postponed and the facility remains closed to the public.
‘Full Frontal’ Pulls Trigger on Wild Horses
You knew this story was DOA with the introduction of the PZP fanatics at 0:50.
Note the “Stay Wild” cap. Big red flag.
The woman interviewed at 1:57 claims the livestock industry drives most of the roundups, yet her organization is as eager to get rid of the horses as the ranchers.
Poorly researched and off the mark, the report gets an F.
And contrary to the advice in the video description, don’t give these people a penny.
RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Program Threatens All Wild Horses.
Foal-Free Friday, If We Get Rid of Them They Can Stay
At the Salt River with THE TRACK ENTHUSIAST.
Sun J and Cattoor, move over! The advocates want a larger share of the wild horse removal business.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Saving Wild Horses by Getting Rid of Them.
Litchfield Arsonist Pleads Guilty
The defendant pleaded guilty today to two counts of conspiracy to commit arson and one count of arson, twenty plus years after he participated in a series of attacks that damaged or destroyed environmental targets in Oregon and California.
One of the incidents occurred at the Cavel West meatpacking plant in Redmond, Oregon, where wild horses were slaughtered according to a report by The Oregonian, and another was at the BLM wild horse corrals near Litchfield, California.
RELATED: Litchfield Arsonist to Accept Plea Deal.
Virginia Range Darting Program Threatens All Wild Horses
Even now, three years after the Nevada Department of Agriculture allowed the PZP fanatics to resume their eradication of the herd, the Virginia Range contradicts the government narrative about the carrying capacity of western rangelands.
“There is attrition in the range and the foal numbers are down, and so we see a reduction in population,” an advocate told a reporter for Courthouse News in the article last August.
Indeed, trailcams installed by Western Horse Watchers only detected one foal in 2021, not seen in subsequent images and probably lost to predators.
Before the advocates got involved, the Virginia was supporting ten wild horses per thousand acres, maybe a bit more, compared to one wild horse per thousand acres on public lands managed by the BLM (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The total number of animals allowed by plan includes burros, so if you corrected for that the target rate would be less than one wild horse per thousand acres.
But the bureaucrats at NDA, an agency staffed by ranchers and ranching sympathizers, among others, claim that the Virginia Range can only support 600 wild horses and ideally no more than 300. The latter figure works out to—wait for it—one wild horse per thousand acres, in line with the BLM narrative!
So the bureaucrats are coordinating their efforts to deceive the public, with the full cooperation of the advocates.
If they achieve their goals on the Virginia Range, “they will provide a valuable template that can be reliably exported to other management areas throughout the American West,” as stated in the article.
RELATED: Move Over Cattoor, Advocates Want Larger Share of Market.
