Saylor Creek HMA Wild Horse Roundup Reports

Welcome to our roundup reporting page for the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area in southwestern Idaho, where you will find eyewitness reports, photographs, and videos from the field as the Bureau of Land Management carries out a wild horse roundup.

Scheduled for July 15 through July 17, the operation calls for approximately 100 wild horses to be gathered from the 101,876-acre Herd Management Area. Of those captured, the BLM plans to permanently remove 68 horses and treat 16 with fertility control before returning them to the range. These figures were adjusted following the agency’s July 1, 2026 press release.

The roundup will disrupt established family bands and permanently remove most of the horses gathered from the public lands they call home. Captured horses selected for removal are expected to be transported to the Boise Off-Range Wild Horse Corrals before entering the federal holding and adoption system.

These reports document what is happening on the ground as it happens. As information becomes available, we will share photographs, videos, capture and removal totals, horse-welfare observations, and other details from the operation to provide the public with transparent, independent reporting.

This page will serve as a living record of the Saylor Creek roundup. Each update will help the public follow the operation, understand its impact on the herd, and see how federal management decisions affect wild horses and their families.

We hope these reports bring greater visibility to the realities of wild horse removals and strengthen the call for humane, science-based management that protects viable herds and keeps America’s wild horses where they belong: free on the range.

7/15/26

Animals captured: 103 (52 Stallions, 40 Mares, and 11 Foals)

Animals Shipped: 0

Deaths: 0

Euthanasia: 0

Sudden / Acute: 0

The Saylor Creek HMA roundup was completed in a single day with 103 horses captured. No deaths were reported. Per the BLM roundup page, approximately 16 mares will be treated with GonaCon-Equine fertility control vaccine then released back to the HMA along with 16 studs for an end population goal of 50 horses. The release date for those horses is pending.