Public lands in the western U.S. managed by the BLM currently support livestock equivalent to one million wild horses on 145 million acres, as determined previously.
If you scale that down to 42 million acres, public lands identified for wild horses and burros in 1971, you get 290,000 wild horses.
The current population is 59,000 wild horses and 15,000 wild burros, equivalent to 66,500 wild horses, well below the carrying capacity of their land.
The population target is 27,000, the number of animals allowed by plan.
The advocates are doing everything they can to help the bureaucrats and ranchers achieve this goal.
Western Horse Watchers Association 