Table 3 in the Management Evaluation Report gives the allotments that overlap the HMA, including the percentages therein.
The 128 horses allowed by plan receive 1,536 AUMs per year on 574,962 public acres according to the 2025 population dataset, or 0.2 animals per thousand public acres.
The Allotment Master Report provides management status, acreage and active AUMs.
In this case, three field offices are involved so three reports were run.
- Wilson Creek
- Geyser Ranch
- Pioche
- Rattlesnake
- Ely Springs
- Highland Peak
- Fox Mountain
- Sunnyside
- Narrows
The figures were copied into an Excel spreadsheet as follows:
Silver King livestock receive an estimated 30,356 AUMs per year, assuming the resource is evenly distributed across the allotments, twenty times more than the horses.
The HMA can only support 128 wild horses but it can support livestock equivalent to 2,530 wild horses, for a True AML of 2,658 or 4.6 animals 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).
The advocates prop up the fairy tale with their darting programs.
RELATED: Scoping Begins for Silver King HMAP.
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