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 Wild Horse & Burro Statistics - FY2003 

WILD FREE-ROAMING HORSE AND BURRO REMOVAL
AND ADOPTION BY OFFICE, FISCAL YEAR 2003
Administrative
Office /a/
Animals Adopted Animals Removed
FY 1972 - FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2003
Horses Burros Horses Burros Horses Burros
Alaska 65 11 0 0 0 0
Arizona 3,126 1,456 174 128 0 444
California /b/ 15,168 5,199 788 258 1,106 624
Colorado 6,242 808 150 38 3 0
Eastern States /b/ 55,459 14,823 1,904 357 0 0
Idaho 6,200 405 103 21 16 0
Montana /b/ 16,350 1,664 134 41 14 0
Nevada 4,039 570 121 3 3,938 148
New Mexico /b/ 26,021 3,823 853 163 0 0
Oregon /b/ 10,401 1,452 225 62 303 0
Utah 5,951 403 141 28 375 0
Wyoming /b/ 10,523 1,216 188 1 3,110 0
Natl. Program Office 1,449 248 201 83 0 0
Total 160,994 32,078 4,982 1,183 8,865 1,216

Total Adopted, Fiscal Years 1972 through 2002: 193,072

Total Adopted, Fiscal Year 2003:

6,165

Total Removed, Fiscal Year 2003:

10,081

FOOTNOTES

Note: The table reflects reassignments, which occur when adopted animals are returned to the Federal government and then re-adopted. Mules are reported as burros.

/a/ Adoptions were previously reported by geographic state, including the District of Columbia. Beginning in 1996, consistent with removals of wild horses and burros, adoptions were reported by the administrative state conducting the adoption. Beginning in 1999, adoptions are also being reported by administrative offices, i.e., adoptions conducted in the national centers in Palomino Valley, Nevada, and Elm Creek, Nebraska, are now reported under National Program Office.


/b/

California administers the program in Hawaii; Eastern States Office administers the wild horse and burro program in the 31 States east of and bordering on the Mississippi River and the District of Columbia; Montana administers the program in North and South Dakota; New Mexico administers the program in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas; Oregon administers the program in the State of Washington; and Wyoming administers the program in Nebraska.

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