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Tonopah, Nev – The Bureau of Land Management’s Tonopah Field Office (TFO) hosted a special Stone Cabin Adoption Event on Sunday, September 25 at the Tonopah Fairgrounds. Twenty recently gathered weanlings and yearlings were hand selected and offered to the public for adoption with five successful in winning the hearts of lucky adopters and finding their way into private care. The TFO had hoped to see a higher adoption rate however the 25 percent adoption rate represents approximately a $250,000.00 cost savings to the American tax payer, based on the $50,000.00 estimated lifetime cost per wild horse should they go un-adopted. The remaining 15 weanlings and yearlings, along with all wild horses that have been removed during the Stone Cabin HMA gather, have been shipped to Ridgecrest Regional Wild Horse & Burro Corrals in California where they are currently still available for adoption. If you would like more information about these horses or how to adopt please call the Ridgecrest facility at 760-384-5765. BLM would like to thank the town of Tonopah for allowing us to use the local Fairgrounds as a venue and for helping to promote the event. 

This special adoption event was held in conjunction with the ongoing, Stone Cabin Herd Management Area (HMA) water and bait trap method gather that began on September 3, 2016. The gather is expected to continue for approximately two more weeks; when completed, the BLM Tonopah Field Office will gather approximately 325 wild horses. Approximately 115 excess wild horses, mostly weaned foals and yearlings, will be removed from the range and approximately 210 of the captured wild horses will be released back to the HMA. Of the horses released roughly 110 will be mares treated with the fertility control vaccine PZP-22; to date, fertility control vaccine PZP-22 has been administered to 58 of the gathered mares. 

For more information regarding the Stone Cabin Bait and Water Trap Gather call Kyle Hendrix at 775-635-4054.