It’s too small but the BLM seeks public input on a water improvement project.
The scoping report says the allotment met Idaho standards for Rangeland Health in 2004 but today it’s in the Improve category.
The parcel offers 567 active AUMs on 4,409 public acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to 10.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring or controlling a base property and flipping its preference to horses.
In this case, there are three permits on the allotment, so you might have to buy several base properties to access all of the AUMs. Not a good idea.
The authorization use report indicates that permit #1104620, held by BILL BERNT, is for horses while the other two are for cattle.
The operator information report at RAS did not show any other authorizations for BILL BERNT, no other permits to graze cattle, sheep or goats.
So what production-oriented purpose—a requirement to get a grazing permit according to the BLM’s new understanding of the meaning of livestock—do his horses serve?
This could be another permit to revoke if the agency decides to pull the grazing permits of American Prairie.
RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.
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