The project area covers five allotments in southeastern Oregon and two in northern Nevada, as discussed previously.
The forage assigned to wild horses is zero.
How many wild horses could live there?
The Allotment Master Report provides management status, acreage and active AUMs.
The allotments support livestock equivalent to 3,085 wild horses on 534,407 public acres.
Approximately 97% of the land is in the Maintain category.
The stocking rate at the True AML would be 5.8 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
The bureaucrats and ranchers claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The advocates bolster the narrative with their darting programs.
If the allotments were a Complex, the AML would be 534 and 2,551 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in Oregon carry livestock equivalent to 87,934 wild horses on 13,130,302 public acres, or 6.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses, as American Prairie did for bison in Montana.
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