Roundups
Roundup Report: Owyhee Complex Roundup Completed with 934 Wild Horses Captured, 27 Dead
The Owyhee Complex (Complex) includes the Little Owyhee, Owyhee, Rock Creek and Snowstorm Mountains Herd Management Areas (HMAs) and spans over 1 million acres in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) currently estimates that as of May 2021, approximately 1,118 wild horses call the Complex home. However, the BLM’s unscientifically low Appropriate Management Level (AML) for the Complex – the number of horses the agency claims that the range can sustainably support in conjunction with other animals and resource uses – is 621-999 horses.
Bureau of Land Management Starts Largest WIld Horse roundup In history
Amid public outrage, federal helicopters descended on Wyoming’s wild horses with the goal of rounding up nearly 50% of the states horses
The BLM is planning to conduct the largest roundup of wild horses EVER in just a few days.
On or around October 8 and continuing into February, BLM-contracted helicopters will take to the skies to round up 4,397 wild horses living in 5 Herd Management Areas (HMAs) — Little Colorado, White Mountain, Great Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek, and Adobe Town — across 3.4 million acres of land in an area known as the Wyoming Checkerboard.Barring a compromise, the roundup will slash the wild horse population in these HMAs to just 1,550 — the lowest the BLM can legally go — leaving just 1 horse for every 2,217 acres.
E&E News: BLM to conduct massive Wyo. wild horse roundup
By Scott Streater, E&E News
GREENWIRE | The Bureau of Land Management is planning to conduct one of its largest-ever roundup operations next week in southwestern Wyoming to remove thousands of excess wild horses from a patchwork quilt of public-private lands.
The proposed roundup and permanent removal of 3,500 wild horses from five federal herd management areas is set to begin Oct. 7 and amounts to nearly half the total 7,700 wild horses roaming federal rangelands across the Cowboy State.
Bureau of Land Management Announces Largest Wild Horse Roundup in Program History
The agency prepares to remove 50% of Wyoming’s wild horse population
Roundup Report: Jackson Mountain Wild Horses, Sept 2021
The Jackson Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA) spans 264,974 acres in Nevada and is home to an estimated 1,018 wild horses. However, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) unscientifically low Appropriate Management Level (AML) for the HMA – the number of horses the agency claims that the range can sustainably support in conjunction with other animals and resource uses – is just 801-888 wild horses.
Media Update: Animal Welfare Violations Mount At the Barren Valley Wild Horse Roundup
MEDIA UPDATE
Roundup Day 8
Animal Welfare Violations Mount At the Barren Valley Wild Horse Roundup
Foals (baby horses) chased with helicopters and roped; Horses electro-shocked with high-voltage cattle prods
Leading Wild Horse Advocacy Organization Calls for a Review of Abusive Practices at Oregon Wild Horse Roundup Happening Now
Animal Welfare Violations Mount as the Bureau of Land Management Accelerates the Roundup and Removal of Federally Protected Wild Horses and Burros from Public Lands
Roundup Report: Four Mile Wild Horses, Sept 2021
The Four Mile Herd Management Area (HMA) spans nearly 19,000 acres in Idaho. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) currently estimates that 210 wild horses call the HMA home. However, the BLM’s unscientifically low Appropriate Management Level (AML) for the HMA – the number of horses the agency claims that the range can sustainably support in conjunction with other animals and resource uses – is 37-60 horses.
