Juniper Mountain Ranch covers approximately 5,900 deeded acres southeast of Maybell, CO, with grazing preference on 5,800 BLM acres and 640 state acres according to the agent’s listing.
The deeded acreage lies within the allotment boundary.
The BLM allotment offers 800 active AUMs, equivalent to 66 wild horses or 11.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (25,500 animals on 25.6 million acres).
If the deeded acreage offers the same level of forage as the public acreage, the ranch should be able to support around 130 wild horses.
The property meets three out of four requirements for refuges.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
NEPA reviews would likely be required.
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