Like the agency it supports, the group wants healthy horses on healthy rangelands, code words for managing HMAs primarily for livestock.
Other surprises in the story by The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel include photographic evidence from the BLM and two conservation districts (ranching advocacy groups) that wild horses consumed 80% of the forage last year and that next year’s Meeker Mustang Makeover, operated by public-lands ranchers, may feature horses from the HMA.