Organizers of the Wild Horse Summit said they’d arm with you with knowledge to effectively advocate so let’s put that theory to the test.
The allotment, on the north side of I-40 near Dinosaur, CO, offers 3,664 active AUMs on 43,242 public acres according to the allotment master report.
The forage assigned to horses is zero.
How many could live there?
The forage assigned to livestock is equivalent to 305 wild horses, or 7.1 animals per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
Your faithful public servants 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 allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 43 and 262 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
What’s that? You didn’t learn any of this at the summit?
You can’t get blood from a stone and you won’t get the required knowledge from conferences organized by ranching sympathizers.
BLM allotments in Colorado support livestock equivalent to 49,546 wild horses on 7,448,367 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.
RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.
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