The article focuses on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is busy clearing federally designated wild horse territory of wild horses on public lands. It mentions wild horse herd management areas (HMAs) constitute just 4 percent of the 750 million acres making up "the West" in the lower 48 states. It also mentions BLM allocates 84 percent of forage in wild horse HMAs, not to horses, but to ranchers holding cheap leases to graze their cattle and sheep.