They were distributed yesterday at the annual meeting of the Public Lands Council.
The winner in the Stewardship Permittee category grazes the Yellowjacket Canyon Allotment in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument according to the BLM news release.
The allotment master report puts it in the Maintain category with 103 active AUMs on 2,563 public acres.
The equivalent stocking rate is 3.3 wild horses per thousand public acres, a bit higher than the target rate across all HMAs of one wild horse per thousand acres.
The meeting included a breakout session on virtual fencing, a topic of growing interest among ranchers.
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