Highway 395 runs through the allotment and there are no fences at the northern end to keep livestock off the road, but the Lakeview Field office has approved a project to resolve that according to a BLM news release.
The parcel offers 6,223 active AUMs on 87,570 public acres, equivalent to 518 wild horses or 5.9 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The allotment master report puts it in the Maintain category.
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres, and that rangeland health will suffer if the stocking rate exceeds that value.
But in Alkali Winter, the stocking rate is almost six times higher and the land meets or exceeds those standards.
An impediment to setting up a refuge is the number of permits in the allotment—four to be exact—so you may need to purchase or lease several base properties to access all of the AUMs.
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