Clear Creek Ranch, located about 15 miles south of Winnemucca, NV, sold last year to J6 Ranches, according to Pershing County assessor’s records.
The listing by Hall and Hall says it covers 10,457 deeded acres, with grazing preference on 48,370 BLM acres producing 2,995 AUMs per year.
The asking price was $8.9 million.
The base property, described in the following video, lies mostly within the Clear Creek Allotment, which lies within the Sonoma Range HA, an area identified for wild horses.
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The Allotment Master Report puts Clear Creek in the Maintain category, with 2,931 active AUMs on 48,370 public acres.
That works out to 60.6 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, enough to support five wild horses per thousand public acres.
The BLM insists that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand public acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
How many wild horses are allowed in the HA? None (AML is zero).
As for the amenities, the log cabin is in APN 009-300-28, with other structures and equipment in APN 009-300-27.
Some of the deeded acreage is in Humbolt County, not covered here.
The HA covers 212,587 total acres, including 150,095 public acres.
The current population is 146, according to the March 2023 HA/HMA Report, and the last roundup was in 1987.
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