The two allotments, located north of Rawlins, WY and east of the Green Mountain HMA, offer 22,832 active AUMs on 103,511 public acres, according to the Allotment Master Report.
The forage assigned to horses is zero.
How many wild horses could live there?
Using the principle of forage interchangeability, the True AML would be 22,832 ÷ 12 = 1,903, 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 1,903 ÷ 103,511 × 1,000 = 18.4 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 ratify the narrative with their darting programs.
If the allotments were an HMA, the AML would be 103, and 1,903 – 103 = 1,800 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
Curiously, the LDS Church holds all of the active AUMs on Bar Eleven.
BLM allotments in the state carry livestock equivalent to 158,425 wild horses on 17,312,214 public acres, or 9.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.
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