The allotments, on the north side of the Little Book Cliffs WHR in Colorado, offer 4,352 active AUMs on 40,713 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 4,352 ÷ 12 = 363, 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 363 ÷ 40,713 × 1,000 = 8.9 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 propagate the fairy tale with their darting programs.
If the allotments were an HMA, the AML would be 40 and 323 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in the state carry livestock equivalent to 49,546 wild horses on 7,448,367 public acres, or 6.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
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