The allotment is too small but nearly 1,500 acres will be treated for cheatgrass next year according to a BLM news release.
Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will deteriorate if wild horse populations exceed one animal per thousand acres but the allotment supports livestock equivalent to three wild horses per thousand acres and it’s in the Maintain category.
The Range Creek HMA, with a target stocking rate of 2.9 wild horses per thousand public acres, is a few miles to the east.
RELATED: Suitability of Allotments for Wild Horse Preserves.
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