So says the writer of an opinion piece in today’s edition of the Reno Gazette Journal.
But it can support privately owned livestock equivalent to 173,000 wild horses!
BLM allotments in the state offer 2,081,076 active AUMs on 40,194,360 public acres according to the Allotment Information Report at RAS.
That’s equivalent to 173,423 wild horses on 40,194,360 acres, or 4.3 wild horses per thousand public acres.
This brings more distress to the bureaucrats and ranchers, who 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).
To find the active AUMs, add the numbers in column Q of the unfiltered dataset.
You’ll have to filter the data for duplicate rows to get the total public acreage.
The author of the commentary affiliates with the Coalition for Healthy Nevada Lands.
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