Yes, that is so. Many ranches large and small grow hay and alfalfa in the growing season to feed their cattle in the winter months in pens. Believe it or nor they still go out and round them up in the fall.
The lease money that’s paid for grazing cattle is 100% more than what the government gets for feral horses grazing on federal land. In fact these horses are costing the taxpayers millions every year to control them and feed them in BLM pens because they double in numbers about every 4 years.
Something has to be done about them and as is pointed out in the article just increasing land they can graze is not the answer because they’ll continue to grow in numbers. They have no natural predator so that leaves it up to man.
Ranchers not only pay the fees for grazing cattle they improve the federal lands at their expense. They put in section fencing and water holes, guzzlers and truck water to different areas in dry years that also benefit wildlife.
Because cattle cannot range over the winter months, and need large amounts of food to survive. Yet (most of) the wild horses survive the winter on limited supplies. So clearly, the horses are more destructive. Like I stated, it's a failure of logic.
Oh, and wild horses have natural predators. Where did you come up with the idea that the opposite is true?