Grants awarded under this opportunity will support the agency’s mission of managing and protecting wild horses and burros on public lands, according to the news release.
Projects should align with the three tenets of rangeland management and could involve, for example, application of fertility control to slow herd growth, monitoring herd and land health, and improving rangeland habitat.
A useful topic in the area of land health would be to determine the forage allocations for wildlife, wild horses and livestock in every HMA and attach those results to existing pages about the HMAs, so the American people can see how resources are managed.
Then they will realize that overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not more horses than the land can support, and that all of the off-range corrals could be emptied several times over if the ranchers were confined to their base properties or discouraged from using public lands by bringing grazing fees in line with market rates.
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