The allotment, site of a spring exclosure project north of Winnemucca, NV, offers 3,600 active AUMs on 38,859 public acres according to the Allotment Master Report.
It’s in the Improve category, one or more standards for rangeland health not met.
The management plan assigns no forage to wild horses.
How many could live there?
The forage assigned to livestock is equivalent to 300 wild horses, or 7.7 per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
Your faithful public servants claim that rangelands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (25,500 animals on 25.6 million acres).
The advocates, defeated a long time ago, prop up the fairy tale with their darting programs.
If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 39 and 261 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in Nevada support livestock equivalent to 173,144 wild horses on 40,194,360 public acres, or 4.3 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.
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