The article says the BLM, in partnership with the Forest Service, planned and installed five virtual fence towers in a jointly managed grazing allotment in the Agua Fria National Monument but did not give the name of the allotment.
A link to the NEPA review was not provided.
A keyword search of ePlanning for “Agua Fria” turned up nine results but nothing for this project.
A search for “virtual” yielded 62 results including three in Arizona but none for a fencing project in Agua Fria.
Maybe the Forest Service did the environmental review.
Or maybe it wasn’t done at all. Not even a CX.
The ArcGIS Viewer shows two allotments stretching eastward into Forest Service land, Horseshoe and EZ Ranch.
The allotment master report identifies the permittees.
A page at the JH Cattle Company website confirms the connection with Horseshoe.
Another page describes the Vence virtual fencing system, which matches the description in the BLM article.
Presumably, JH Cattle will benefit from the new equipment, but who paid for it?
The allotment offers 4,572 AUMs on 29,851 public acres, equivalent to 12.8 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).
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