The advocates are some of the most outspoken opponents of principal use, a condition in the original statute regarding areas identified for wild horses and burros.
Today, roughly half of their land is managed primarily for livestock and the other half is managed principally for livestock.
The distinction is in the forage allocations.
In the HMAs, livestock receive around 80% of the authorized AUMs while in the HAs they receive almost all of them, allowing a small percentage for wildlife.
Like HMAPs and roundups, fertility control pesticides don’t change these numbers, they enforce them.
Thus, it is true that the advocates do not protect wild horses and burros, they protect the bureaucrats and ranchers.
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