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The amount a few horses eat would have very little impact on the ungulates IMHO
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Some areas require users to haul their own horse feed in and they are not permitted to graze so it has been deemed a problem in some areas. Unfortunately, this only makes the invasive plant issue worse when hay is used.
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And most of the time horses are taken on existing trails.
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LOL...existing trails created by horses. It's the repeated use that leads to errosion.
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I don't think any of these reasons would require the horses to be "booted" off the mountain.
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As I say, all users groups come with a cost and when that cost becomes too high, action is taken. ATV users are certainly seeing that now. I've trailed horses into the mountains for 20 years but I'm not so naive as to not think I don't have am impact.