The news release says the Monticello Field Office issued a proposed decision authorizing the agency to drill a new well on the Spring Creek West Allotment but the DNA, copied to the project folder in ePlanning, indicates that installation and maintenance would be the responsibility of the permittee.
The allotment offers 150 active AUMs on 1,360 public acres, equivalent to 9.2 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.
The allotment master report puts Spring Creek West in the Improve category with no AUMs in the suspended column to help the land recover.
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