Not much, a conservation group’s analysis of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data found earlier this month — raising questions about the value of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of horses inhabiting federal lands used for livestock grazing, which has a significantly bigger impact on the health of Western ecosystems, according to the report.
“It’s a super controversial program, and we were just curious to see what we would find,” said Chandra Rosenthal, Rocky Mountain director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “I hear a lot from BLM, people who are on the ground, that wild horses are a real problem. And so we wanted to see what was reflected in the data that they were recording.”