The buyer was Ensign Group of Salt Lake City according to a January 16 report by Cowboy State Daily.
The price was not disclosed.
The Stewart Creek Unit clashes with three HMAs.
The total preference, a little over 90,000 AUMs, is equivalent to 7,500 wild horses.
Taxpayers will receive $121,500 per year for the resource at the current grazing fee, while they spend $6 per day per head, or $16.4 million per year, to care for 7,500 wild horses in off-range holding.
Nobody in the private sector would do that.
But a government agency co-opted by a special interest would, especially when it’s aided and abetted by a cadre of frauds who claim to be voices for the horses.
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