The BLM allows livestock equivalent to 1,023,481 wild horses on 145,895,940 public acres, or seven wild horses per thousand public acres, as discussed previously.
To bring the grazing program in line with the wild horse and burro program, which allows one such animal per thousand acres, the bureaucrats would need to relieve the ranchers of six out of seven AUMs, or approximately 86% of the forage apportioned thereto.
This would likely result in a major disruption of the gravy train.
A level playing field would mean that cause of poor rangeland health would be much more difficult to identify.
RELATED: Putting Wild Horses on Par with Privately Owned Livestock.
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