The allotment, about 30 miles southeast of Roswell, sustains cattle and horses in a 12-month grazing season according to the authorization use report. (The figures in the report are not correct. Twenty horses would require 240 AUMs per year not 127.)
The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.
The permittee receives 15,106 active AUMs on 126,373 public acres, equivalent to 1,259 wild horses or ten 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 (25,600 animals on 25.6 million acres according to the last page of the 2025 population dataset).
The advocates ratify and reinforce the narrative with their darting programs.
If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 126 and 1,133 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
The area would be held to a small fraction of carrying capacity to accommodate large numbers of livestock, placed there by high-net-worth individuals who pay almost nothing for the resources they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.
BLM allotments in New Mexico support livestock equivalent to 153,225 wild horses on 12,234,818 public acres, or 12.5 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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