The Carrying Capacity Illusion: Exposing the Systemic Underestimation of Wild Horse Forage on Public Lands

The assertion that western public lands can only support one wild horse per thousand acres is not a scientific or ecological reality; it is an administrative fiction. The BLM's own allotment data consistently shows that these lands produce enough forage to support stocking rates of five, ten, or even twenty wild horse equivalents per thousand acres.