What is really the damage the horses are doing? Because when you have elk and deer and cattle and they’re all kind of using the same area, you can’t really say it’s the horses doing the damage An excellent point, which won't be considered by bureaucrats.
when you have elk and deer and cattle and they’re all kind of using the same area, you can’t really say it’s the horses doing the damage
***There have been several studies of fenced-in areas. Deer have no trouble jumping the fence, cattle can’t. The grass grows just fine, very little erosion in the fenced-in deer areas.
Horses are very destructive. I can look at nearly any landscape/pasture and take a good guess at what is out there. My horse pastures are far more barren, generally speaking, than anything carrying cattle or sheep. The other issue is cattle are regulated via lease agreements and deer and elk via hunting permits. Horses are largely unregulated and are becoming over populated. This didn’t happen when people could freely remove horses from rangeland.