Forage Interchangeability: Key to Wild Horse Carrying Capacity

Call it dietary overlap if you’d like.

Horses graze in allotments and cattle graze in HMAs.

It’s the same land.

Forage doesn’t grow with little tags on it.  “I’m for horses.”  “I’m for cattle.”

Once you understand that it’s easy to compute the True AMLs, the number of animals the land can support if it was managed principally for them.

RELATED: How to Estimate the Carrying Capacity of HMAs.

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