Triangle L Ranch covers 5,885 deeded acres, with grazing preference on 74,000 public acres producing 5,132 AUMs per year, according to the listing by Hall and Hall.
That works out to 69.4 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, enough to support 5.8 wild horses per thousand public acres, despite claims by the bureaucrats that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
Why the difference? The bureaucrats assigned most of the forage in the lawful homes of wild horses to privately owned livestock.
The property features nine miles of a perennial creek and a 125-acre pivot.
The asking price includes all farm equipment but not cattle and hay.
The agent’s map ties the deeded acreage to BLM and Forest Service allotments.
On the BLM side: Frost Creek, Lindsay Creek and Browne, all in the Tuscarora Field Office, and Railroad Pass in the Bristlecone Field Office.
For the Forest Service: Mica North, Corral Creek and Cherry Springs, all in the Ruby Mountains Ranger District (Humbolt-Toiyabe National Forest). Unfortunately, the AOIs for this area have not been published. The allotments can be found on the Western Watersheds map but will not be covered here.
The National Data Viewer shows the BLM allotments vis-à-vis nearby HMAs.
Railroad Pass overlaps Diamond Hills South. Click on image to open in new tab.
The Allotment Master Reports (Tuscarora | Bristlecone) put Frost Creek and Lindsay Creek in the Maintain category, and Browne and Railroad Pass in the Improve category.
The seller does not hold all of the active AUMs in the allotments.
Livestock retreat to base properties during the off season and during periods of voluntary or mandatory non-use due to drought, wildfires or overgrazing.
Instead of competing with wild horses, a buyer could leverage the deeded acres in a rewilding project by asking the BLM for change in livestock type and season of use, as American Prairie did for bison in Montana.
In this way, less than 6,000 private acres would control 74,000 public acres, exactly what the ranchers are doing except the landscape would be dotted with free-roaming horses, not privately owned cattle and sheep.
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