W Bar Ranch covers 23,894 total acres according to the agent’s listing, including 1,618 deeded acres, 2,390 state acres and 19,886 BLM acres.
The numbers are very close to those in the allotment master report for Cornucopia Ranch, located a few miles south of Piñon, NM.
The allotment is currently permitted for cattle according to the authorization use report, with a twelve-month grazing season.
The permittee receives 5,032 active AUMs per year, enough to support 419 wild horses.
The stocking rate would be 21.1 wild horses per thousand public acres, despite claims by your faithful public servants that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
The land ratio is good, 17 public acres per deeded acre.
The property might be suitable as a wild horse refuge, saving taxpayers 419 × 6 × 365 = $917,610 per year.
The simple payout period would be 4.4 years.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to one or more grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
The advocates could be investing in such projects, which would likely gain value over time, instead of wasting your donations on programs that benefit ranchers.
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