The six allotments that coincide with the four HMAs offer 48,964 active AUMs on 337,999 public acres, equivalent to 4,080 wild horses on 337,999 public acres, or 12.1 wild horses per thousand public acres.
This brings more embarrassment to the bureaucrats and ranchers, who claim public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The AML is 536.
The pre-gather population is 3,035.
What can you conclude?
- The True AML is north of 4,600
- The Complex is not overpopulated
- There is no justification for a fertility control program
- Over 4,000 horses are rotting in off-range holding because of permitted grazing
- This is some of the most productive land in the American west
- The Complex is managed primarily for livestock
- The advocates are full of crap
Wild horses can have principal use of the Complex—as Velma and the 92nd Congress intended—by confining the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season.
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