Wild horses and water

Rancher/conservationist William Simpson articulates an argument for taking wild horses out of places they are not wanted…where they end up being slaughtered, and transporting them up into mountain wilderness areas. He claims that if this is done, the horses end up grazing wildfire fuel, and in so doing reduce the massive wildfires that we have grown used to throughout our country, because of their digestive systems, they end up re-seeding natural flora and fauna. I had one major question/apprehension having had a ranch in the mountains of Arizona…is there any water for the horses? “There is ground water everywhere in the mountains.”

A wild horse will abate about 5.5 tons of prodigious grass and brush annually in and around forests. 5.5 tons of grass and brush equals roughly 5-7 acres of grass and brush (varies with area), which can easily be maintained by wild horses year-round