The HMA contains 399,725 public acres and lies mostly within the allotment.
The 250 wild horses allowed by plan require 3,000 AUMs per year.
The stocking rate allowed by plan is 0.6 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The allotment offers 26,121 AUMs per year on 506,985 public acres, equivalent to 2,177 wild horses or 4.3 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category.
If the land can only support 0.6 wild horses per thousand acres and the bureaucrats pack it with livestock equivalent to 4.3 wild horses per thousand acres, then rangeland degradation must be a goal, not an unintended consequence of permitted grazing.
Another possibility is that your faithful public servants are lying about the carrying capacity of public lands.
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