Notably Absent from Wild Horse Summit

A keyword search of the conference home page yielded these results:

• AUM – 0 occurrences
• AML – 0
• Allotment – 0
• Permit – 0
• Base property – 0
• Livestock – 8
• Forage – 0
• Grazing – 6
• Public lands councils – 0
• Farm bureaus – 0
• Stockgrowers associations – 0
• Resource allocations – 0
• Principal use – 0
• RMPs – 0
• Rangelands – 1
• Equivalent horses and stocking rates for allotments – 0
• Rangeland Administration System – 0
• Allotment Master Report – 0
• National Data Viewer – 0

The organizers claim to be arming you with knowledge to effectively advocate but they are tiptoeing around the #1 problem for wild horses and not giving you a quantitative basis to make the case.

Worse, they have given airtime to the Wild Horse Fire Brigade, a nonprofit that’s openly hostile to wild horses, opposes the spirit and intent of the original statute, and has the backing of Elko County, a ranching advocacy group.

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