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Livestock vs Wild Horses grazing stats BLM report: 37 cows to 1 horse, Horses still Rounded up today

Posted by on November 12, 2015

I say we need a lot more balls to stand up to these bullies.
I wonder what Trump will do if president
to destroy the wild horse herds if he pushes for oil and gas and use of public lands…
Advocates need more muscle to fight this crisis now.
Is Obama caving in to the big guys for any or all public land use for profit?

Any ideas? talk to your Congressmen and Representatives and President and Vice President NOW.

Read the EYEOPENING pdf link below

SOURCE WATCH

Livestock Data Fills Gap in Ongoing Wild Horse Debate

BLM and USFS-reported grazing stats reveal the extent of private livestock production on millions of acres of overgrazed western public range and forest land, challenging rancher claims that wild horses and burros are to blame.

Photography: Bryce Gray

A side-by-side analysis of 2014 grazing data shows wild horses greatly outnumbered by millions of privately owned livestock across 251 million acres of western public grass and forest land.

The data includes 2014 year-end grazing receipts of $17.1 million published by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Forest Service (USFS), a figure that equates to a livestock total of 2.1 million cattle. This is 37 times greater than the 56,656 free-roaming wild horses and burros estimated by both agencies in 2014.

Other BLM and USFS reported data show private livestock allocated 97 percent of the forage across all 251 million acres of BLM and USFS-managed lands. Wild horse and burros inhabit 12 percent of that land and are allocated 3 percent of forage overall.

A key finding of the analysis is the abundance of studies on overgrazing and climate change due to livestock production, and the lack of comparable studies on wild horse impacts.

The fully footnoted analysis by The Daily Pitchfork can be downloaded here.

 

About Vickery Eckhoff (10 Articles)
Co-founder and Executive Editor Vickery is a New York City-based writer whose investigation of wild horse politics and the underground horsemeat trade has produced six radio interviews, a book proposal and more than two dozen articles on Forbes.com, the Huffington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Alternet. As part of her research, Vickery has interviewed Dr. Temple Grandin, local and state legislators, horsemeat-loving chefs, slaughter plant owners, kill buyers, ranchers and officials at the USDA, Bureau of Land Management and other government agencies. She has been a guest speaker at four equine conferences on the topic of correcting disinformation about horse slaughter and animals in the media.

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