Sevens Ranch offers 17,666 deeded acres intermixed with 49,557 acres of BLM and State lands for a total of 67,223, according to the listing.
The map indicates it has preference on the Disappointment and Cedar Springs Draw allotments.
The Allotment Master Report puts both in the Improve category but shows no active AUMs on either, contrary to the agent’s description.
The allotment dataset posted last April shows 1,610 active AUMs on 22,304 public acres for Disappointment and 2,758 active AUMs on 20,161 public acres for Cedar Springs Draw, equivalent to 364 wild horses on 42,465 public acres, or 8.6 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 horse per thousand public acres.)
Buyers should ask the Little Snake Field Office about the AUM discrepancy.
The ranch might be a candidate for Colorado’s new wild horse preserve.
The land ratio is 2.8 public acres for every deeded acre, so it’s close.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring private property associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses as Wild Horse Refuge did at Rio Ro Mo Ranch.
Western Horse Watchers Association 