New Mexico

Would be to round them up on horseback, not an impossible task but time consuming and costly in monetary resources. might tear up some artifacts.

This route is probably best since natural processes will make corrections over time.

Also, there must have been a special permit of some kind issued by the administrating agency (probably USDA-FS) to even conduct the flights let alone actually shooting something on the ground in a designated Wilderness Area. There are many prohibitions about use of machines and transportation machinery in a designated Wilderness Area which includes bullets landing on the ground in the Area. Landing an aircraft is a specific offense but will probably be done at some point. Aircraft time is expensive but that may be the greatest expense for this whole operation.

A lot went into this decision and planning, I know people who used to hang out of planes and helicopters to shoot tranquilizer darts or bullets at wildlife to conduct studies, it takes a bit of planning and approval. What I wish they could do is retrieve the carcasses but 150 is too many for such an operation in a designated Wilderness Area.

Hopefully they will be sort of spread out so they carcasses aren't in a concentrated area... but if they are clumped together it might make for a recovery operation of some of the carcasses.

A hard call.