Roundups

New Plan Threatens Future of the Theodore Roosevelt Wild Horses

(September 29, 2023) This week the National Park Service (NPS) released the much-awaited Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for a livestock management plan for the wild horses and longhorn cattle in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP).

The 93-page document will “assess the potential impacts of continuing current livestock management (No Action Alternative) and implementing one of the action alternatives that would remove livestock from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.”


Surprise Complex Roundup, September 2023

BACKGROUND

On September 18, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will begin a roundup and removal of the wild horses from the Surprise Complex, east of Cedarville, California. A Complex is a group of Herd Management Areas in close proximity to one another. Wild horses from the High Rock, Fox Hog, and Wall Canyon will be rounded up and removed. The agency is setting a target goal of 494 wild horses to be rounded up, with approximately 404 permanently removed. All horses will be transferred to the BLM's Holding Facility at Litchfield.


Roundup Report: West Douglas Herd Area, Sept 2023

The West Douglas Herd Area (HA) is located in the same region of northwest Colorada as the 190,000-acre Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area (HMA). However, unlike the Piceance HMA, which allows a maximum of 235 horses to live there, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has set an allowed population level of 0 for the West Douglas HA, blaming the terrain and lack of summer range.

The BLM has contracted with ll use CD Warner Livestock to use helicopters to round up and remove the remaining 68-120 wild horses left on the public lands in the HA beginning on or about September 1.


Oregon Roundups Conclude: Summary

Hog Creek HMA Roundup Summary, August 24, 2023

The BLM captured 38 horses (18 stallions, 18 mares, 2 foals) and shipped 24 to the Burns Corrals. Fourteen animals were released (7 stallions and 7 fertility-treated mares).

The average Henneke Body Score was 4. Roundup operations ended at 2:45 p.m. Conditions were sunny and clear with a high near 82F.

The Hog Creek roundup officially concluded, with 38 mustangs captured. 


Deadly Federal Wild Horse Roundups Conclude in Nevada

39 federally-protected wild horses including small foals, perished in operations

RENO, NV (August 22, 2023) — Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the conclusion of two controversial large-scale capture operations in eastern Nevada, which unfortunately resulted in the tragic deaths of 39 federally-protected wild horses.


Roundup Report: Stinkingwater HMA, August 2023

The Stinkingwater roundup has concluded. 

August 20, 2023: 5 Mustangs Captured

We met at the BLM office in Burns at 5 am and proceeded to the trap site. I received a notification that the crew was running late. Around 8 am, the pilot took to the air, and at 8:20, I witnessed five horses descending from the top of the mountain. By 8:25, the pilot began using his sirens. It seemed like the horses attempted to hide among the trees, as that was the last place I saw them.


Palomino Butte Roundup Report: Aug 2023

August 16, 2023: Palomino Butte Roundup Concludes, 192 Wild Horses Captured


USFS Roundup/Removal of Devil’s Garden Wild Horses Begins on September 4th

By Mary Koncel, Special Projects Coordinator

(August 7, 2023) The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) recently announced that this year’s roundup and removal of 500 wild horses from the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory (Territory) is scheduled to start on September 4, 2023.


Roundup Report: Antelope Complex-North, July 2023

Antelope Complex-North 

64 Wild Horses Were Rounded Up Today

August 12, 2023: Today we met at 6:30 AM, 49 miles south of Wells, Nevada and then drove another 5 miles to the observation point. This was the same observation and trap site that we were at on Monday, August 7.