Refer to the following data from a 2018 EA for resource enforcement actions at the Warm Springs HMA in Oregon. The HMA covers 475,574 acres.
1. How many horses are allowed by plan?
2,424 ÷ 12 = 202, this is the AML
2. Livestock receive ____ times more forage than the horses.
19,392 ÷ 2,424 = 8 times more
3. The horses receive ____ percent of the total authorized forage.
2,424 ÷ (2,424 + 19,392 + 204) = .11 = 11%
4. How many horses have been displaced from the HMA by livestock?
19,392 ÷ 12 = 1,616 horses displaced
5. What is the True AML?
202 + 1,616 = 1,818
6. If the current population is 468, the HMA contains ____ excess horses.
Zero, 468 < 1,818
7. The stocking rate allowed by plan is ____ horses per thousand acres.
202 ÷ 475,574 × 1,000 = 0.4, the average across all HMAs is 1
8. If the grazing season is five months, how many cow/calf pairs are allowed by plan?
19,392 ÷ 5 = 3,878 cow/calf pairs
9. The stocking rate allowed by plan is ____ cow/calf pairs per thousand acres.
3,878 ÷ 475,574 × 1,000 = 8.2, considerably higher than the rate for horses
10. The HMA was set aside for ________ but is managed primarily for ________.
Wild horses, livestock
BONUS QUESTION: The best way to get rid of excess horses is _______________.
Irrelevant, there are no excess horses
Conclusion: The management priorities in the HMA are backwards.
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