The allotment, on the east side of the Sand Wash Basin HMA, offers 6,082 active AUMs on 53,855 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 6,082 ÷ 12 = 507, 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 507 ÷ 53,855 × 1,000 = 9.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
The bureaucrats and ranchers 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 give their assent though their darting programs.
If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 54 and 453 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in Colorado carry livestock equivalent to 49,546 wild horses on 7,448,367 public acres, for an average of 6.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
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