The allotment lies mostly within the Fifteenmile HA but outside the HMA, as shown in the ArcGIS Viewer.
The Allotment Master Report puts it in the Improve category, another indication that your stewards of the public lands have not been taking their responsibilities seriously.
The permittees receive 6,207 active AUMs on 94,000 public acres.
If the area was designated for wild horses, how many could live there?
The forage assigned to livestock is equivalent to 517 wild horses, or 5.5 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).
The advocates, defeated a long time ago, reinforce the narrative with their darting programs.
If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 94 and 423 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in Wyoming support livestock equivalent to 158,425 wild horses on 17,312,214 public acres, or 9.2 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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