That’s the estimated population in the state according to the 2024 HA/HMA Report.
The land-use plans allow 3,795 wild horses on 3,644,013 public acres, or approximately one wild horse per thousand public acres.
BLM allotments in the state offer 1,902,445 active AUMs on 17,312,214 public acres, according to the Allotment Information Report at RAS.
That means they’re supporting privately owned livestock equivalent to 158,537 wild horses on 17,312,214 public acres, or 9.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
The bureaucrats and ranchers tell us that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
Given that the HMAs are a subset of the allotments, they should be able to support 10.2 wild horses per thousand public acres, or approximately 37,000 wild horses, four times higher than the current population.
For every wild horse allowed on Wyoming public lands, nine have been consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
The advocates use this disparity to peddle their fertility control programs, helping the bureaucrats realize their goal of ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses.
NOTE: The active AUMs in the allotments can be found by adding the values in column Q of the unfiltered dataset. The total public acres can be found by filtering the list for duplicate entries in column A and adding the remaining values in column E.
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