The BLM plans to remove 50% more wild horses from their home range this year than last year, while its budget increased just 18% over the same period according to figures on page 203 of the Division G Explanatory Statement for the FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Worse, the cost of fuel for motorized equipment has skyrocketed, along with the price of feed, so how exactly will the agency achieve those goals?
Removal of excess animals, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs, means shifting the resources back to the public-lands ranchers in areas set aside for wild horses.
Helicopters do the achieving while the advocates do the maintaining.
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