There were 60,055 wild horses and 2,973 wild burros in off-range holding according to the April Facility Report.
Table 8 in the 2021 EA for pest control and resource enforcement in the Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek, Great Divide Basin, White Mountain and Little Colorado HMAs gives the estimated active AUMs for livestock in these areas, summarized below.
Little Colorado was not part of the dispute with the Rock Springs Grazing Association and does not appear in the consent decree but was included in the EA.
Nearly 16,000 wild horses have been displaced from the HMAs because of permitted grazing, about 26.6% of the horses in off-range holding.
None of the HMAs are overpopulated from a forage viewpoint.
The True AMLs represent the number of horses the HMAs could support if they were managed principally for them.
The advocates, instead of working for principal use as Velma and the 92nd Congress intended, have concluded that the ranchers should receive the lion’s share of the resources and that the horses would be better off if they weren’t even born.
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