- Wild horses and burros have a small piece of the American Pie
- The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages 245 million acres of our public land
- 155 million acres for privately owned livestock grazing
- Wild horses and burros are managed on BLM Herd Management Areas and United States Forest Service (USFS) Wild Horse Territories that comprise 31.6 million acres, of which 26.9 million acres are under BLM management.
- Authorized livestock use on BLM lands for Fiscal Year 2021 was 7,576,940 Animal Unit Months (AUMs). That’s the equivalent of 631,412 cow/calf pairs. (1 AUM = a month’s forage for 1 horse, 1 cow/calf pair, 5 sheep.)
- Authorized wild horse use on BLM-managed lands is 321,420 AUMs or 26,785 wild horses and burros.
