Would O’Keeffe Individual Make a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

The BLM will extend the season of use by two months to test virtual fencing and targeted fall grazing according to yesterday’s news release.

The authorization use report shows the current season.

The allotment, located between the town of Adel and Beatys Butte HMA, offers 4,808 AUMs on 51,785 public acres, equivalent to 7.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.

The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category, probably because it’s in a priority management area for greater sage-grouse, not because of the exceptional stocking rate.

Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will suffer if wild horse populations exceed AML, which corresponds to a stocking rate of one wild horse per thousand acres.

There is only one permittee, suggesting that grazing privileges can be obtained through one base property, which may correspond to some or all of the private acreage inside the allotment.

With an estimated carrying capacity of 400 wild horses, the project might be worth a closer look—if the base property is offered for sale along with the permit.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

The advocacy groups could have special funds for such efforts.

Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse numbers down in favor of livestock.