Here’s your chance to place wild horses in the Wyoming checkerboard!
Haystack River Ranch covers over 92,000 acres, including 25,000 deeded acres, 41,000 BLM acres, a private lease of 23,500 acres and a state lease according to the listing.
The land produces over 9,000 AUMs (per year), equivalent to 750 wild horses.
The overall stocking rate would be 8.1 wild horses per thousand 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).
The agent’s map puts the deeded acreage, shown in white, on the east side of the ranch and the private lease on the west.
BLM parcels of approximately 640 acres each, shown in yellow, appear on both sides.
The property description says the leased acreage, also shown in white, belongs to Anadarko, which may correspond to Orion Mine Finance today.
The ranch meets three out of four requirements for a wild horse refuge.
Following successful negotiations with the parties involved, wild horses would be able to roam freely on public and private lands as cattle do today.
The ArcGIS Viewer identifies the overlapping allotments as Haystack and Haystack River Pasture.
The Allotment Master Report puts Haystack in the Maintain category and Haystack River in Custodial, condition unknown.
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.
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