Let’s see, the WHB Act no longer affords the protections sought by Velma, roughly half of their land is managed principally for livestock and the other half is managed primarily for livestock, and you don’t know what to do?
An organizer of the Save Our Wild Horses conference told KRNV News in a story dated May 2 “We don’t know if [the horses] should be rounded up at all, but we also don’t know can we improve the range conditions and leave the horses on the range where it doesn’t cost the taxpayers any money? Right now, we’re doing these expensive roundups, putting horses in holding where we’re keeping them.”
A schoolboy could figure this out but we’re not dealing with schoolboys.
If forage demand exceeds forage supply, you have a problem.
Once you understand that AMLs correspond to a small portion of the total authorized forage, and that most of the resource has been assigned to privately owned livestock, you’ll realize that public lands in the western U.S. can support many more horses than the bureaucrats and ranchers admit and that overpopulation is a myth.
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