The Applegate Field Office has proposed the removal of juniper trees in northeastern California to stimulate the development early seral grass and forb species preferred by mule deer and other sage-steppe obligate species.
Curiously, the project area, which covers 13,790 public acres, coincides roughly with the Nelson Corral Allotment. Refer to Figure 1 in the DNA.
Perhaps there are other intended consumers of the tender young plants not mentioned in the analysis?
The Allotment Master Report puts Nelson Corral in the Maintain category.
The allotment offers 1,802 active AUMs on 12,849 public acres, or 140.2 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to 11.7 wild horses per thousand acres.
This brings more embarrassment to land managers who claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
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