The Stewart Creek HMA lies within the Stewart Creek Allotment with a little room to spare in the northeast corner.
Size
- HMA – 157,500 public acres (2025 population dataset)
- Allotment – 165,025 public acres (allotment master report)
Animals allowed by plan
- HMA – 175 wild horses
- Allotment – Livestock equivalent to 689 wild horses
Resource loading
- HMA – 1.1 wild horses per thousand public acres
- Allotment – Equivalent to 4.2 wild horses per thousand public acres
The HMA would be well over 3X AML with no wild horses.
Livestock exert 3.8 times more grazing pressure than horses.
If the land can only support 1.1 wild horses per thousand acres but routinely carries the equivalent of 5.3 wild horses per thousand acres, then rangeland degradation must be a goal, not a defect of permitted grazing.
Another possibility is that the land can support more wild horses than the bureaucrats admit.
The advocates won’t talk about it because it undermines the rationale for their darting programs.
RELATED: Resource Management in the Beaty Butte Allotment.
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