Allotment Status in Carlsbad Field Office

The allotment information report at RAS yielded 275 allotments covering 1,964,564 public acres.

The system put 24% of the allotments in the Improve category along with 40% of the public acres.

Nearly 39% of the allotments and 54% of the public acres were in the Maintain category.

Approximately 36% of the active AUMs fell into Improve, with 58% in Maintain.

Results have been summarized in this table:

Category	Allotments	Public Acres	Active AUMs	AUMs / 1000 Ac	Equiv Horses	Horses / 1000 Ac
Custodial	103	128,587	24,360	189.4	2,030	15.8
Improve	66	778,386	135,887	174.6	11,324	14.5
Maintain	106	1,057,591	222,252	210.1	18,521	17.5
Tot / Avg	275	1,964,564	382,499	194.7	31,875	16.2

The field office supports livestock equivalent to 31,875 wild horses.

The results suggest that forage production and carrying capacity are greatest where standards for rangeland health have been achieved.

The original dataset and pivot tables can be found in this spreadsheet.

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