If you want to understand the enmity between the public-lands ranchers and wild horses, read the county’s news release dated June 24.
Better yet, read the June 11 letter from the Board to the BLM.
Western Horse Watchers estimates that sixty to seventy percent of the county is public lands, mostly BLM and USFS, and most of that acreage is subject to permitted grazing, based on the arrangement in the National Data Viewer and Western Watersheds map.
The HMA is close to the northern edge, denoted by red arrows.
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