The comment period ends September 27 and as of today, the project tops the most active list in ePlanning.
Under the Proposed Action, described in Section 2.1 of the Draft EA, the agency would issue a grazing permit for a period of ten years, subject to terms and conditions.
The allotment lies mostly within the Alamo HA, the lawful home of wild burros, as shown in the following image from the National Data Viewer.
It overlaps the Alamo HMA on the east side.
The permit would offer 927 AUMs per year on a 12-month grazing season, enough to support 154 burros.
The advocates may see an opportunity to help the rancher by poisoning the jennies with Zonastat-H, a fertility control pesticide on the same EPA list as toxic chemicals.
A new pest control plan was released two weeks ago covering three HMAs in the area, including Alamo.
UPDATE: RAS was down when this post went live. The Allotment Master Report puts Palmerita Ranch in the Improve category with one permittee.
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