Identified for wild horses but managed principally for livestock, Jakes Wash covers 153,662 public acres 12 miles west of Ely, NV. It’s part of the Pancake Complex.
Table 5 in the Draft EA for the new HMAP gives the percentage of four overlapping allotments inside the HA.
The Allotment Master Report provides management status, acreage and active AUMs.
Livestock receive an estimated 10,003 AUMs inside the HA, assuming the resource is evenly distributed across the allotments, enough to sustain 834 wild horses.
The stocking rate would be 5.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Our faithful public servants tell us that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horses per thousand public acres.
How many wild horses will be allowed in the HA when the new HMAP is complete?
None. The AML will still be zero and the land will be managed principally for livestock.
The horses will be viewed as pests and pest control measures will be applied as needed.
The advocates would have you believe that most wild horse problems can be traced to lack of HMAPs.
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