The proposal for a wild horse ecosanctuary was submitted by Saving America’s Mustangs in response to a 2011 BLM solicitation, according to a 2012 news release.
The facility would include 14,000 deeded acres that serve as the base property for the 534,000-acre Spruce Allotment.
Up to 900 federally owned wild horses would graze thereon, for a stocking rate of 1.7 animals per thousand public acres.
A 2012 notice in the Federal Register indicated that the agency intended to prepare an EIS and RMP amendment for the project which would “reduce and potentially eliminate livestock grazing within the portion of the Spruce Allotment east of Highway 93.”
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