Sorry boys, it’s been nice but it hasn’t been real nice. Your sacred status on America’s public lands has been reviewed and found to be, well, inconvenient.
That’s the message in Section 3.11.4.2 of the Draft EIS for the Libra Solar Project southeast of Yerington, NV.
The facility will appropriate 1,722 acres in the Gray Hills allotment and 3,419 acres in the Perry Springs-Deadman allotment, resulting in the loss of 218 AUMs per year.
That’s equivalent to 18 wild horses running free in the allotments.
Why not do that and avoid all the mess?
The Allotment Master Report puts Gray Hills and Perry Springs in the Maintain category, offering a combined 6,065 active AUMs on 158,468 public acres, or 38.3 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to 3.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.
This brings more embarrassment to the bureaucrats and ranchers, who insist that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
Figure 3.11-2 in the EIS shows water sources for Gray Hills originating southeast of the proposed plant in an area that turns out to be the Wassuk HMA. Another example of resources taken from the horses for the benefit of the ranchers.
If the bureaucrats are willing to subordinate the ranchers to their agenda of weakness and vulnerability—the goals of green energy—you can be sure the horses don’t have a chance.
The advocates won’t complain because they vote for it.
There won’t be much pushback from farm bureaus, stockgrower’s associations and cattlemen’s groups because they’re also run by left-wing kooks.
The EIS and related documents have been copied to the project folder in ePlanning.
Comments will be accepted through March 4 according to the news release.
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