Starting a Nonprofit That Actually Helps Wild Horses

Where would you get ideas for your business model?

Forget about the advocates.  They’re obsessed with pesticides and HMAPs.  They want the ranchers to win.

Sanctuaries help the bureaucrats move wild horses off the range.  They represent victory for the ranchers and failure for the horses.

Adoption and training free-up space in the off-range corrals so more wild horses can be removed from their lawful homes.  Another dead end.

Mustang Monument provides a few hints.

The project would end permitted grazing on the Spruce Allotment.  This is good, put it on the list of desired characteristics.

The land ratio is excellent, 14,000 deeded acres provide access to over 500,000 public acres.  Another item for the list.

Three HMAs were threatened.  Spruce-Pequop would probably be lost.  Unacceptable.

The new herd would consist of 900 nonreproducing animals.  Unacceptable if you’re trying to preserve the bloodlines for future generations.

American Prairie purchases base properties tied to public lands to achieve their conservation goals, a technique they call “leverage.”

The aim of the new nonprofit would be to displace privately owned cattle and sheep from America’s public lands by acquiring deeded acreage associated therewith and flipping the grazing preference to wild horses (or burros).

Highly leveraged properties, with land ratios of ten or more public acres for every private acre, are most desirable.

They should not overlap areas identified for wild horses and burros.

With the ranchers out of the picture, other techniques, such as the reintroduction of predators and self-managing herds, can be considered to promote genetic diversity while keeping the breeding populations in balance with their environment.