The incident started today as scheduled, with 89 horses captured, none shipped, none released and one dead.
A mare tried jumping out of the trap and broke her neck.
RELATED: Sulphur Roundup Announced.
Lake Havasu Roundup, Day 6
The incident started on August 7. Results through August 12:
- Scope: West of Havasu HMA, north of Lake Havasu City
- Target: Burros
- AML: None
- Pre-gather population: Unknown
- Type: Nuisance
- Method: Bait
- Goals: Gather 100, remove 100
- Captured: 90, up from 71 on Day 3
- Shipped: 48, up from 21 on Day 3
- Released: None
- Deaths: 1, no change from Day 3
- Average daily take: 15.0
- Unaccounted-for animals: 41
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The death rate is 1.1%.
The capture total includes 29 jacks, 51 jennies and 10 foals.
Youngsters represented 11.1% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 36.3% were male and 63.8% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The July 31 schedule classifies the roundup as an emergency but the gather page says nuisance.
The BLM asserted that an EA from 2008 fully covers the removal.
RELATED: Lake Havasu Roundup, Day 3.
Black Rock Desert Closing for Burning Man
The first part of the closure went into effect on July 25 and runs through September 28, according to the BLM news release.
Phase 2, affecting a wider area, begins on August 19 and runs through September 7.
Refer to the closure map for boundaries.
Black Rock City, “a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance,” opens on August 25.
The incident was marred last year by rain that turned the playa into a quagmire.
Marietta Roundup Announced
The incident will begin on or about August 20 according to today’s news release.
The capture goals are 31 wild horses and 290 wild burros.
The removal goals are identical, meaning there are no plans to return any of the animals to the HMA.
The current population is thought to be 378 burros and 31 horses.
A helicopter will push the animals into the trap and operations will be open to public observation.
The HMA covers 66,045 total acres southeast of Hawthorne, NV, including 64,466 public acres, according to the 2024 population dataset.
The 104 burros allowed by plan require 624 AUMs per year.
The AML for horses is zero.
Burros identified for removal will be taken to the Axtell off-range corrals.
Horses identified for removal will be shipped to the off-range corrals in Palomino Valley.
Marietta is exempt from permitted grazing although last year the BLM looked at reactivating the Bellville allotment, among others, which overlaps the southern half of the HMA, but then cancelled the project earlier this year.
WHB Manual Explains Current Management Practices
Apparently, the bureaucrats have taken matters into their own hands, ignoring the will of the people. (It’s not unprecedented, look at the southern border.)
According to the statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death.
According to the manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death.
An example of unauthorized capture would be person who took a wild horse or burro off the public lands for his personal use or profit.
Unauthorized harassment might correspond to persons who threw rock at them or chased them with ATVs.
The Jakes Valley shootings would be an example of unauthorized death.
Refer to any roundup or darting program for examples of authorized capture, branding, harassment and death.
Authorized by the bureaucrats, that is, not the American people.
Mustang Monday
Horses have the day off. In the Black Mountain HMA with WaybrightVentures.
Boulders, Not Advocates, Cause of Sunny Hills Roundup?
The head darter-in-charge with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses told This Is Reno in the following report that they baited the horses out of the construction area with alfalfa but couldn’t shut the gate behind them because of boulders.
You couldn’t set up some temporary pipe panels to keep them from going back in?
Lash them to existing posts with hay string if necessary?
That should have been plan C.
For those of you in Rio Linda, her remark at 1:36 about putting a lot of money and time and effort into the management of the horses means they’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past five years trying to ruin the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking their ovaries.
RELATED: Advocates Bungle Sunny Hills Rescue, 24 Horses Lose Freedom.
Sulphur Roundup Announced
The incident will begin on August 13 according to the BLM news release.
The July 31 schedule puts the capture and removal goals at 420 and 360, respectively.
The current population is thought to be 606.
Free-roaming horses will be pushed into the trap by a helicopter and operations will be open to public observation.
The HMA covers 265,711 total acres in western Utah, including 230,157 public acres, according to the 2024 population dataset.
The 250 horses allowed by plan, a number the bureaucrats and ranchers are willing to tolerate—not the number of horses the land can support, receive 3,000 AUMs per year.
Animals identified for removal will be taken to Axtell off-range corrals.
The schedule indicates that 30 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine and be returned to the range with 30 stallions, but this is not mentioned in the news release.
Animals removed = Animals captured – Animals returned = 420 – 60 = 360
As of today, a link to the daily reports has not been added to the Utah gather page.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
RELATED: Sulphur Wild Horses Get Short End of Stick.
UPDATE: Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page.
Sunny Hills Wild Horses Hung Out to Dry
Do you think their rescuers, who have been trying to get rid of them since 2019, would make a good-faith effort to keep them on the range?
Really?
RELATED: Advocates Bungle Sunny Hills Rescue, 24 Horses Lose Freedom.
Tassi-Gold Butte Draft EA Out for Public Review
The former HMA, which was zeroed out in 1998 to protect the desert tortoise, covers 101,816 acres of Mojave Desert in northwestern Arizona.
The environmental assessment analyzes the use of periodic removals to achieve and maintain zero wild burros in and around the HA, according to yesterday’s news release.
The current population is thought to be 219.
The Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.2, would authorize helicopter and bait trapping over an unspecified period.
Comments will be accepted through September 9.
The EA was copied to the project folder along with the news release.
The HA is not subject to permitted grazing but adjacent lands are.
Refer to the maps in Appendix A.
RELATED: New Management Plan Targets Tassi-Gold Butte Burros?
UPDATE: The NPS news release was published on August 12.
Lake Havasu Roundup, Day 3
The incident started on August 7. Results through August 9:
- Scope: West of Havasu HMA, north of Lake Havasu City
- Target: Burros
- AML: None
- Pre-gather population: Unknown
- Type: Nuisance
- Method: Bait
- Goals: Gather 100, remove 100
- Captured: 71, up from 42 on Day 1
- Shipped: 21, up from zero on Day 1
- Released: None
- Deaths: 1, no change from Day 1
- Average daily take: 23.7
- Unaccounted-for animals: 49
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The capture total includes 24 jacks, 39 jennies and 8 foals.
Youngsters represented 11.3% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 38.1% were male and 61.9% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The July 31 schedule classifies the roundup as an emergency but the gather page says nuisance.
The BLM asserted that an EA from 2008 fully covers the removal.
RELATED: Lake Havasu Roundup Begins.
Where Is Sunny Hills Ranchos?
The construction site is at the north end of Rio Wrangler Parkway in southeast Reno, on the western slope of the Virginia Range.
Of the 24 animals now at NNCC, the stallions will likely be gelded, the mares may already be ruined (by PZP), and the foals, if any, may have faulty immune systems.
Other than that, the advocates did a fine job caring for the horses.
RELATED: Advocates Bungle Sunny Hills Rescue, 24 Horses Lose Freedom.
Advocates Bungle Sunny Hills Rescue, 24 Horses Lose Freedom
The number of horses removed from the construction site has climbed to 24 according to an NDA news release dated August 9.
The news release confirms they were taken to NNCC where they will be microchipped and identified to ensure they are not returned to the range.
An inventory of the animals was not provided.
An advocate with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, organizer of the mass sterilization program, told KRNV News in the following report that the horses could be sent to auction, where they could be sold for slaughter.
RELATED: Sunny Hills 20 Taken to NNCC?
Sunny Hills 20 Taken to NNCC?
Willis Lamm of LRTC indicates at 0:49 in this report by KOLO News that the horses were taken to the prison (in Carson City), which is probably the Northern Nevada Correctional Center.
The BLM occasionally offers saddle-started horses at the facility, trained by inmates.
RELATED: Advocates Knew “Sunny Hills 20” Were in Construction Zone.
Advocates Knew “Sunny Hills 20” Were in Construction Zone
They want you to think they were caught off guard when NDA took 20 wild horses from the housing development to corrals in Carson City. Nobody saw this coming.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture, headed by a public-lands rancher, gave the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, organizer of the mass sterilization program, and its affiliate, Wild Horse Connection, several weeks to relocate the horses, presumably to another part of the Virginia Range, but they failed, according to a report by The Nevada Independent.
The advocates say the developer reneged on its word to allow them to move the animals.
NDA staff discovered yesterday that fencing and a lock had been cut at the construction site, letting more wild horses into the area.
RELATED: Advocates Protest Virginia Range Roundup in Carson City.
Foal-Free Friday, Right Versus Wrong Edition
Western Horse Watchers reminds you that thinning the herds is a necessary step for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
Actually, there are many wrong ways but only one right way according to the advocates.
UNACCEPTABLE
- Shooting them with crossbows
- Choking them with apples
- Hitting them with vehicles
- Shooting them with rifles
- Trapping them with bait
- Trapping them with helicopters
- Poisoning their waterholes
ACCEPTABLE
- Shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts
Next time they’re consuming more than their allocated share of the resources, call the advocates. They want your business!
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Childless Cat Ladies Edition.
Lake Havasu Roundup Begins
The incident started on August 7 with 42 burros captured, none shipped, none released and one dead.
Advocates Protest Virginia Range Roundup in Carson City
The event was organized by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, whose representative said the removal of wild horses from a construction project in Reno was completely unnecessary, according to a report by Nevada Appeal.
Volunteers with CAAWH are trying to prove that mass sterilization is a practical alternative to motorized removal.
RELATED: NDA Captures Virginia Range Mustangs in Construction Zone.
BLM Dispatches Mom-Baby Pair at Muddy Creek
They were stuck in mud at the bottom of a dried-up pond according to a story by ABC4 News of Salt Lake City.
The mom was so exhausted and dehydrated they killed her on the spot.
The baby was taken an unnamed corral where it was killed due to extreme dehydration.
A photo of the pond suggests it was man made, constructed perhaps by one or more of the permittees.
The following allotments overlap the HMA, with some land extending beyond its boundary:
- Dry Wash
- South Ferron
- South Sid and Charley
- Globe Link
- Lone Tree
- Red Canyon
- Temple Mountain
- McKay Flat
- Hondo
- Mussentuchit
All are in the Price Field Office except Mussentuchit, which is in the Richfield office.
The Authorization Use Reports (Price | Richfield) indicate that every authorization is currently in its off season, meaning there is no livestock grazing in the HMA.
So who cares if the pond goes dry?
The report did not indicate if it was filled by rainfall or if water was piped from a nearby spring or well.
Kicking Incident Puts Spotlight on Mount Charleston Horses
A story by KLAS News on August 6 says the family was getting ready for a photo shoot when a wild horse galloped by, kicking their three-year-old daughter in the head.
She is now recovering in a Las Vegas hospital.
A video report by KTNV News on August 7 shows the horse grazing nearby.
An advocate wants the horses moved to her ten-acre sanctuary near Pahrump according to an update by FOX5 News.
Western Horse Watchers has not seen a satisfactory explanation of the events leading to the incident nor any calls for the involvement of child protective services.
Western Horse Watchers Association 