Why would Larry Don Suckla, a Colorado Republican, be so interested in a bill crafted by liberals, signing on as a cosponsor?
Because he runs cattle in Gypsum Valleys, a short distance from the Spring Creek Basin HMA.
The bill, if signed into law, would help the state buy pesticides to beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.
The allotment master report puts Gypsum Valleys in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.
The allotment offers 1,777 active AUMs on 41,187 public acres, equivalent to 3.6 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The target stocking rate across all HMAs is one wild horse per thousand acres.
Above that, rangeland health will suffer according to your faithful public servants.
Yet they allow almost four times as many animals per public acre in Gypsum Valleys, another example of management duplicity.
As for Suckla, he’s probably sending Christmas cards and birthday greetings to TJ Holmes, the rangeland eugenicist at Spring Creek Basin.
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