If the bureaucrats assign forage to livestock in areas identified for wild horses, the AMLs are artificially low.
They represent the number of horses allowed by plan, not the number of horses the land can support.
For example, the Little Colorado HMA supports livestock equivalent to 3,750 wild horses and has an AML of 100. It could go as high as 3,850.
The AML is artificially low, carefully chosen to protect ranching interests, not wild horses.
Proponents of animal agriculture want you to think that AMLs represent a physical limit, such as the speed of light, not an administrative limit.
This line of thinking drives the roundups and darting programs.
The link in the Google search result above pointed to a story about the January 3 decision that allowed the Forest Service to move ahead with management actions in the Big Summit WHT.
RELATED: Court Sides with Forest Service in Big Summit Appeal.
Western Horse Watchers Association 