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Onaqui and Range Creek Horse and Burro Gathers 2019
Region: Statewide
ID: 5157
Project Status: Completed
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2020
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Final Methods
The Bureau of Land Management has concluded two seperate horse gathers using water and bait trap gather of wild horses on the Range Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) in Carbon County, Utah and Onaqui Mountain Wild Horse Gather, in Tooele County, Utah. The BLM gathered 154 wild horses (53 stallions, 78 Mares, 23 foals) from the Range Creek HMA from September 26, 2019 to October 2, 2019. They gathered 241 wild horses (89 stallions, 104 mares, 45 foals) from the Onaqui Mountain HMA from September 11-19, 2019. Horses removed from the Range Creek HMA were transported to the Axtell Off-Range Contract Facility, Axtell, UT and the horses from the Onaqui Mountain HMA were transported to Delta Wild Horse & Burro Facility, Delta, UT. The horse will be prepared for the BLM adoption and purchase program.
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The Onaqui gather received multiple visitors, including media representatives (several articles and TV news reports were published), advocacy groups, county commissioners, and members of the public. The Range Creek gather had minimal visitors as much of the gather was on private land. The Range Creek gather had to shutdown twice, once for high winds and second to due horses scattering around the trap-site. Each day the gather started around 7:00 am and were finished by 12:00 pm. Temperature ranged from 32-56 degrees fahrenheit for the Range Creek gather and 54-75 degrees fahrenheit for the Onaqui Mountain gather. A total of three horse fatalities occurred during the event (1 on Range Creek 2 on Onaqui) from injuries and had to be euthanized.
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Future Management
The BLM will continue to conduct monitoring activities in the HMA, including the monitoring of individual and herd health (including mares after fertility control vaccine treatments), genetic diversity (via hair sampling), population size (via flight and ground inventories), population growth rate assessments, and rangeland, wildlife habitat, and riparian conditions.
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Daniel Eddington
Submitted Time
08/31/2020 09:30:23
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