What the McCullough Advocates Are Trying to Protect

This article by the Casper Star-Tribune features remarks from a PZP darter and a ranching sympathizer, both held up as voices for the horses.

The management plan assigns 3.9 times more forage to livestock than it does to wild horses, in the lawful home of wild horses.

As of today, the horses are consuming more than their allocated share of the forage, not more than the land can produce.

That is the meaning of overpopulation.

The BLM wants the resource allocations enforced with baited traps and pesticides while the advocates say the traps aren’t necessary, the pesticides will achieve the results by themselves.

Like the bureaucrats, they want the ranchers to prosper, not the horses.

A BLM spokesman said they’re just following the law that the American people through Congress have already established, which is not true.

There’s nothing in the current statute that says AMLs must correspond to 20% of the authorized forage or less.

Good grief, the term isn’t even defined!

AMLs are small relative to the available resources because the bureaucrats, who never have to face the voters, said so.

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UPDATE: In this video, the PZP darter is on the left and the ranching sympathizer is on the right.