Jackson Mountain HMA Wild Horse Roundup Reports

Welcome to our roundup reporting page for the Jackson Mountains Herd Management Area in northwestern Nevada, where you will find eyewitness reports, photographs, videos, and daily updates as the Bureau of Land Management carries out a helicopter roundup.

The operation began on September 20. The BLM estimates that 679 wild horses live in the HMA, not including the 2026 foal crop, while the agency’s established Appropriate Management Level is just 130 to 217 horses.

The BLM plans to gather and permanently remove approximately 500 wild horses. Captured horses selected for removal will be transported to the Winnemucca Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corrals in Paradise Valley, Nevada, where they will undergo veterinary evaluations before entering the federal adoption program.

This large-scale removal will separate established family bands and send most of the estimated herd into the federal holding system. It also comes as the BLM advances a long-term management plan that could authorize permanent sterilization and other invasive measures to maintain the herd within its low population target.

Our field observers will attend whenever access is provided to witness helicopter drives, monitor horse welfare, document roundup conditions, and provide the public with transparent, independent reporting.

This page will serve as a living record of the Jackson Mountains roundup. Throughout the operation, we will publish daily capture, removal, release, and mortality totals, along with photographs, videos, and firsthand observations from the field.

We hope these reports bring greater transparency to this sweeping removal and strengthen the call for humane, science-based management that protects the herd’s long-term health, genetic viability, and freedom on the range.

*The BLM had not issued a webpage for the Jackson Mountains HMA roundup when the roundup began. Our observer onsite asked about it and was told it had been brought to their attention and they were looking into it. A webpage was added sometime between midday on the 20th and 8:30am on the 21st.

September 21, 2026

Animals Gathered: 27 (13 Stallions, 11 Mares, 3 Foals)

Animals Shipped: 51 ( 22 Stallions, 26 Mares, 3 Foals)

Deaths: 1

20+ y/o, bay, stud, chronic, BCS 1, unable to maintain or improve

Observers were again more than a mile from the trap site. A CAWP rep was onsite and brought the distance to the operator’s attention. Observers were at a fence line of a natural gas station, however after the manager came out and warned of a gas line that ran where they were were advised to park and observer, and the smell of the gas, they repositioned about 200 feet away.

Seeing temporary holding was again not allowed.

September 20, 2026

Animals Gathered: 147 (51 Stallions, 64 Mares, 32 Foals_

Animals Shipped: 115 ( 36 Stallions, 47 Mares, 32 Foals)

Deaths: 3

20+ y/o, buckskin stallion, chronic, blindness

20+ y/o, bay, mare, chronic, deformity, knee

13 y/o, bay mare, chronic, defect, previously fractured fetlock

There were three observers onsite today. Observers were over a mile away from the trap and could not see much of the horses. There was no CAWP team onsite.

There were six runs with little visibility between distance and dust.

Observers were not allowed to visit temporary holding, only the trap site once operations for the day were complete. Observers were told the numbers would be on the website. It appears BLM added a webpage overnight.