An environmental assessment for grazing permit renewals says in section 1.1 that the field office authorizes 380,544 active AUMs on 1,947,890 federal acres, equivalent to 16.3 wild horses per thousand federal acres.
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
The EA did not indicate how many of the acres were in the Improve category.
Comments on the project will be accepted through February 14.
A solution might be for the contractor to build a sturdier fence while letting the water run onto public lands as it does now so the animals can continue to drink.
Any talk about new trenches or pipes or tanks on public lands would likely trigger a NEPA review and months or years of delay before anything happens in the field.
The allotment, located between the town of Adel and Beatys Butte HMA, offers 4,808 AUMs on 51,785 public acres, equivalent to 7.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category, probably because it’s in a priority management area for greater sage-grouse, not because of the exceptional stocking rate.
Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will suffer if wild horse populations exceed AML, which corresponds to a stocking rate of one wild horse per thousand acres.
There is only one permittee, suggesting that grazing privileges can be obtained through one base property, which may correspond to some or all of the private acreage inside the allotment.
With an estimated carrying capacity of 400 wild horses, the project might be worth a closer look—if the base property is offered for sale along with the permit.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
The advocacy groups could have special funds for such efforts.
Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse numbers down in favor of livestock.
The fence around the property should meet the requirements of NRS 569.431.
If the agency receives complaints about the horses and burros and determines that they’re damaging property or posing a safety hazard to the construction crew, it may order a roundup.
They won’t capture the animals and take them back to their HMAs.
They’ll be permanently removed from the range.
The property is not in an area identified for their use.
The loss of nine free-roaming horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is just another day at the office for the advocates.
At the Salt River, they’ve taken the herd from 450 to 280.
The largest attempted eradication of wild horses is not being carried out by the BLM in Wyoming but by the advocates at the Virginia Range.
The number of horses lost is not known because they scrubbed their darting resources page and the monthly reports posted thereto. The final result could go as high as 3,000.
New programs are springing up wherever they can convince the bureaucrats that they have a better way.
They are enemies of America’s wild horses and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
The allotment is too small but nearly 1,500 acres will be treated for cheatgrass next year according to a BLM news release.
Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will deteriorate if wild horse populations exceed one animal per thousand acres but the allotment supports livestock equivalent to three wild horses per thousand acres and it’s in the Maintain category.
The Range Creek HMA, with a target stocking rate of 2.9 wild horses per thousand public acres, is a few miles to the east.
Remnants of the old spa are on deeded acreage in the Montezuma Allotment, between the Paymaster and Montezuma Peak HMAs.
The PLSS layer in the ArcGIS Viewer indicates the property covers two 40-acre parcels in section 26 of T1S R41E, MDB&M.
The spa is in the southwest quadrant of the easterly parcel.
The allotment master report puts forage availability on the public lands at 13.6 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, barely enough to support one wild horse or two wild burros per thousand acres.
The landscape and animals are documented in this video by Windy Bill.
They are the pesticide pushers, enemies of America’s wild horses and servants of the public-lands ranchers.
They couldn’t convert an AML to AUMs if their lives depended on it, much less compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area identified for wild horses.
But they know how much adjuvant to add to the PZP and how long to mix them.
W Bar Ranch covers 23,894 total acres according to the agent’s listing, including 1,618 deeded acres, 2,390 state acres and 19,886 BLM acres.
The numbers are very close to those in the allotment master report for Cornucopia Ranch, located a few miles south of Piñon, NM.
The allotment is currently permitted for cattle according to the authorization use report, with a twelve-month grazing season.
The permittee receives 5,032 active AUMs per year, enough to support 419 wild horses.
The stocking rate would be 21.1 wild horses per thousand public acres, despite claims by your faithful public servants that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
The land ratio is good, 17 public acres per deeded acre.
The property might be suitable as a wild horse refuge, saving taxpayers 419 × 6 × 365 = $917,610 per year.
The simple payout period would be 4.4 years.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to one or more grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
The advocates could be investing in such projects, which would likely gain value over time, instead of wasting your donations on programs that benefit ranchers.
The allotment contains an area identified for wild horses, which is unacceptable.
The ArcGIS Viewer shows the arrangement.
About 70% of the HA is managed principally for livestock.
Horses are tolerated in the HMA, the remaining piece in the northeast corner.
The allotment offers 8,279 active AUMs on 68,879 public acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to ten wild horses per thousand public acres.
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand public acres.
You don’t need to buy the base property to put wild horses back in the HA.
You just need to rid the bureaucracy of ranchers and ranching sympathizers and overturn the planning process that zeroed it out.
The advocacy groups could have special funds to acquire base properties not associated with HMAs and WHTs, opening up new spaces on public lands for wild horses.
Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse numbers down in favor of livestock.
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