Roundups
Death Toll Mounts to 64 in CA/NV Fed’l Wild Horse Roundups
Death Toll Mounts to 64 in CA/NV Fed’l Wild Horse Roundups
Fifteen foals among the dead
(August 17, 2022) – Amid growing controversy surrounding the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program, helicopter roundups in California and Nevada have resulted in the deaths of 64 federally-protected wild horses and burros so far.
Roundup Report: Blue Wing Complex, Aug 2022
On August 1, 2022, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Humboldt River Field Office will begin a roundup and removal of the wild horses and burros from the Blue Wing Complex in Nevada. The complex has five Herd Management Areas and four Herd Areas which encompass over 2,283,000 acres and the BLM has set the Appropriate Management Level (AML) of a mere 333-553 wild horses and 55- 90 wild burros! The helicopter contractor is Warner Livestock.
The BLM plans to remove approximately 200 wild horses and 800 wild burros.
Roundup Report: Twin Peaks HMA, July/Aug 2022
On July 23, 2022, the BLM plans to round up and remove one of California’s largest wild horse herds from the 800,000-acre Twin Peaks Herd Management Area (HMA) along the California-Nevada border in Lassen County, Calif. and Washoe County, Nev.
The BLM plans to capture approximately 2,000 wild horses and remove approximately 1,800 from the range. The plan also calls for capturing and removing 339 wild burros. The BLM plans to treat only 110 mares with a fertility control vaccine and release them back onto the range.
Roundup Updates All In Once Place
Summer roundup season is in full swing with four wild horse roundups currently underway across three states. AWHC has had field representatives on the ground at each of these operations to bring you the latest.
Bible Springs Complex, Cedar City, UT
Guest Blog: A Look at the Black Mountain Burro Roundup
By Laurie Ford, guest blog
(Aug 4, 2022) Now that roundup season is escalating and demanding our attention we can’t forget those that occurred over the past few months; especially the roundup of Arizona’s Black Mountain burros - descendants of burros used by miners and prospectors during the 1860s and one of the last remaining large, genetically-healthy burro herds.
Wild horse roundup draws criticism from animal rights activists
KUNC | By Brittany Cronin
Wild horses photographed in 2013 in the McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Herd Management Area in Wyoming.
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up hundreds of wild horses in the northwestern part of the state this summer in what is projected to be the largest horse roundup in state history.
There are more wild horses in the region than the land can sustain, according to the bureau, but critics are concerned about the animals’ health during the roundup.
Roundup Report: Piceance Basin Wild Horses, July 2022
ROUNDUP REPORT
ROUNDUP CONCLUDED. 864 wild horses have been captured and there have been 6 deaths.
July 31, 2022: 35 wild horses were rounded up today, and there were two deaths that were noted by BLM as being "pre-existing"
July 30, 2022: 24 wild horses were rounded up today
Deadly Day at California Wild Horse Roundup
5 horses - including 2 foals - die days after the stampede and a pileup kills 2
Senate Committee Moves to Reform Fed'l Wild Horse and Burro Program
Washington, DC (July 28, 2022) — Today, the nation’s leading wild horse protection organization, the American Wild Horse Campaign, commended the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for including reversible immunocontraceptive fertility control vaccines in its fiscal year 2022 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies bill released today.
VIDEO: Dozens of Stressed Wild Horses Attempt Escape from Cramped Pens in CA/NV Fed’l Operation
July 25, 2022
The nation’s leading wild horse protection organization, the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) is currently on the ground at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Twin Peaks Herd Management Area (HMA) wild horse roundup along the California-Nevada border in Lassen County, California and Washoe County Nevada.
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