The allotment, located north of Wells, NV, offers 13,031 active AUMs on 112,213 public acres, according to the Allotment Master Report.
The forage allocation for horses is zero.
How many wild horses could live there?
Using the principle of forage interchangeability, the True AML would be 13,031 ÷ 12 = 1,086, the number of horses the land could support if it was managed principally for them as specified in the original statute.
The stocking rate would be 1,086 ÷ 112,213 × 1,000 = 9.7 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).
The advocates bolster the narrative with their darting programs.
If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 112 and 974 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in Nevada carry livestock equivalent to 173,144 wild horses on 40,194,360 public acres, for an average of 4.3 wild horses per thousand public acres.
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