If you’re thinking about HMAPs, you’re right, but there are other ways the advocates tell you they want the ranchers to win.
Forage allocations for wild horses and livestock are specified in resource management plans, sometimes referred to as land-use plans.
The plans are usually enforced by motorized removal.
If horses are consuming 40% of the authorized forage when the plan gives them 20%, a roundup is ordered to protect the ranchers.
The advocates don’t like roundups but concur with the idea of resource enforcement.
Fertility control is a better way of ensuring the ranchers receive 80% of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses, as specified in the RMPs.
There are no low-flying helicopters and no roping of fatigued animals.
In its extreme form there are no horses—exactly what the ranchers want.
Western Horse Watchers Association 