The allotments have a common border but are composed of checkerboard lands.
Together they offer 2,860 active AUMs on 30,107 public acres, equivalent to 7.9 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will suffer if wild horse stocking rates exceed one animal per thousand acres, yet the allotment master report puts both in the Maintain category.
The permits are up for renewal but the news release did not include a link to the NEPA review.
The Proposed Action would convert 46 horse AUMs in Adobe Hills to cattle but the total authorized forage would not change. Refer to section 3.4.2 in the Draft EA.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands no identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.
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