But focusing on wild horses irks some conservation groups.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility released a report of its own accusing the USGS of overstating the harm caused by wild horses to greater sage grouse habitat, while overlooking the fact there are many more cows and sheep grazing on federal rangelands (E&E News PM, Sept. 20, 2021).
Spivak, the Center for Biological Diversity public lands program director, pointed to BLM statistics that she said show 16.5 million acres of grazing allotments within priority sage grouse habitat “do not meet public land health standards.”
