Originally part of the Lucky 7 Ranch, two other ranches in the same area have been split off and are now on the market.
That puts the grazing preference on the Sherburn and Fifteen Mile Community allotments in play.
The Operator Information and Allotment Information reports at RAS associate two grazing authorizations and four allotments with Harry Ranch LLC in Oregon.
3600203 – FIFTEEN MILE COMMUNITY, SHERBURN
3603721 – TRAILING PERMIT, CAMPBELL
Campbell is tied to Lucky 7, discussed yesterday.
Vance grazes Fifteen Mile and Ten Mile uses Sherburn.
The Allotment Master Report puts Fifteen Mile in the Improve category, with 20,960 active AUMs on 309,316 public acres.
That works out to 67.8 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to 5.6 wild horses per thousand public acres.
BLM staff claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
Vance shares the allotment with four other permittees and receives 26.7% of the total forage.
Sherburn is in the Maintain category with 3,771 active AUMs on 46,983 public acres, equivalent to 6.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Ten Mile receives all of the authorized forage.
The trailing permit covers movement of livestock from one area to another.
As an alternative to cattle grazing, the new owners could ask the BLM for a change in livestock type and season of use so horses could roam the land, as American Prairie did for bison in Montana.
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