SAVE AMERICA'S NATIVE EQUINE
THE PATH TO A PRODUCTION POSSIBILITY FRONTIER NOT "The Path Forward"
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A SANE Solution to Public Land Management
Save America’s Native Equine (SANE Campaign) announced the publication of a source-verified white paper applying Production Possibility Frontier (PPF) and Pareto-improvement concepts to public lands, wild equine, and livestock management.
The paper asks a practical question: Can finite public resources—including land, forage, water, agency budgets, infrastructure, and management capacity—be allocated more effectively through a limited, measurable pilot rather than relying on isolated management decisions or moving immediately to a nationwide policy change? SANE offers a different path: connect the decisions, test them at a manageable scale, measure the results, then decide what deserves broader implementation.
“The goal is a non-zero-sum game,” a SANE Campaign spokesperson said. “Better allocation, restoration, and management may expand public value so taxpayers, public lands, wildlife, wild equines, livestock management, and federal managers can all achieve better outcomes.”
Current management context
At a time of rising costs and competing demands, the need for better information and smarter decisions has never been greater. As of March 1, 2026, BLM estimated 85,466 wild horses and burros on public rangelands. In May 2026, the agency reported 58,025 animals in off-range care. BLM's latest detailed actual expenditure breakdown remains FY2024: $153 million in total Wild Horse and Burro Program expenditures, including $101 million for off-range holding. The 2026 federal grazing fee is $1.69 per AUM (Animal Unit Month).
This publication distinguishes current 2026 figures from completed-year actuals, historical benchmarks, stakeholder estimates, model outputs, and site-specific pilot hypotheses.
A limited, reversible pilot
The white paper identifies an illustrative 10–15% resource-adjustment range as a practical starting point for testing whether existing public-land resources can be used more effectively. For Congress, BLM, the U.S. Forest Service, livestock producers, and the public, the potential value is straightforward: better information, clearer tradeoffs, more predictable costs, healthier working landscapes, and management choices that can be tested before anyone is asked to support a broader change. The goal is to test modest, site-specific management options and look for better combined outcomes.
The 10–15% range provides a measurable starting point for evaluating modest adjustments, different timing, alternative forage arrangements, restoration, or other management choices.
Suggested measures include total taxpayer costs, repeated removals and holding liabilities, wild-equine welfare and population stability, cow-calf and broader livestock-operation outcomes, vegetation and fuel conditions, reseeding and recovery, water and watershed condition, wildlife habitat, nutrient cycling, soil processes, legal compliance, and distributional effects.
“Measurable pilot projects, transparent evaluation, and public reporting give policymakers and stakeholders the ability to compare management alternatives using evidence rather than assumptions,” the spokesperson said. “If the evidence supports the model, it can move forward responsibly. If it does not, it should be modified, paused, or ended.”
From White Paper to the SANE Systemwide Analytical Framework
The PPF white paper is the foundation of the SANE Systemwide Analytical Framework—a structured decision framework for evaluating public-land management decisions and programs as an interconnected system rather than in isolation.
The framework connects economic analysis, systemwide measurement, evidence testing, management alternatives, decision-making, and responsible implementation through a common eight-step visual architecture.
Additional SANE publications will build on that foundation through detailed methodologies, applied examples, and real-world case scenarios.
Important evidence qualifications
The white paper distinguishes verified government data from historical estimates, original analytical data and model records, model outputs, and pilot hypotheses. The illustrative 10–15% range is supported by the original analytical data and model record and is used as a measurable starting point for site-specific testing. Projected savings, livestock outcomes, ecological benefits, and other modeled results are not presented as established facts. They must be supported through transparent calculations, clearly identified assumptions, site-specific testing, and publicly reported results.
The framework is designed to determine whether proposed management changes produce measurable improvements in taxpayer costs, public-land health and water resources, wildlife habitat, wild-equine welfare, livestock operations, long-term federal liabilities, and overall public value.
About Save America’s Native Equine
Save America’s Native Equine, known as the SANE Campaign, is a public-interest advocacy initiative focused on humane, scientifically informed, fiscally responsible, and transparent management of America’s wild horses and burros. The initiative promotes public-land stewardship, accountability in the use of taxpayer resources, and practical policy solutions informed by ecology, economics, and federal law.
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MEDIA CONTACT
Ally Smith
SANE Campaign / Save America’s Native Equine
Website: SANECampaign.org
Email: SaneCampaign@gmail.com
Phone: 202-688-1832
How You Can Help
You can help by contacting your government representatives and ask them to consider a new management approach in which there is a systemwide framework to address public land management. Please share the SANE Solution wherever you can. PUBLIC OUTCRY is the only way to end the government's extreme approach to wild equine management.
The SANE Analytical Framework
The SANE Analytical Framework is a systemwide decision framework for evaluating public-land management choices as interconnected—not isolated—decisions. It measures ecological, economic, welfare, legal, operational, and public-benefit outcomes together, making tradeoffs, costs, risks, and uncertainty visible.
SANE compares alternative pathways through three steps: MEASURE conditions, TEST alternatives, and OPTIMIZE systemwide outcomes. Its purpose is not to predetermine policy, but to identify which evidence-supported pathway produces the greatest overall public value without hiding harm or shifting consequences elsewhere.
EVALUATE THE WHOLE SYSTEM
Recognize the effects of public-land decisions across ecological, economic, fiscal, legal, welfare, and operational outcomes.
TEST BEFORE SCALING
Use limited demonstrations to compare alternatives, measure results, and reduce policy risk before broader implementation.
MAKE EVERY TRADEOFF VISIBLE.
Account for the full costs, benefits, risks, and consequences—including those transferred to another program, place, or population.
LET THE EVIDENCE DETERMINE THE PATH.
Advance the management approach that delivers the strongest combined outcome for taxpayers, public lands, communities, and animals.
ONE SYSTEM. EVERY CONSEQUENCE. A CLEARER BASIS FOR ACTION.
SANE turns fragmented decisions into one accountable view of what works, what it costs, and what best serves the public interest.
SAVE AMERICA’S NATIVE EQUINE MOVEMENT
Why SANE and Why NOW?
The equine advocacy community works to overcome powerful and monied special interest groups affecting equine policy at the Federal level. Unity is essential. The private citizens who support Federal and State equine protection policies need to come together in a professional manner.
ONE VOICE and ONE POINT of PURPOSE (POP).
The SANE CAMPAIGN Movement invites these individuals to help in our mobile advocacy project. We understand that you have much to offer and that your voice matters! You’re important to America’s equine.
Save America’s Native Equine administrators conducted research and studied the most viable way to promote change. They sought council from many to develop a multi-pronged strategy that is scalable and attainable to meet supporters' individual interests and goals. This effort is a movement to save wild equine. It’s a carefully designed movement that‘s created to compliment the important efforts other organizations and individuals are currently working on. We ask all to come together in this work to make our voices heard across the country. You’re invited to participate in the Save America's Native Equine Campaign. This movement is a value add for anyone working to protect American wild equine.
It’s a cherry on the top for wild horse advocacy.
About Us
Expertise
The Campaign has secured an experienced government outreach authority with equine expertise at both the state and federal level, a certified program management expert with deep wild horse knowledge and a General Council with a strong equine background. All are providing consulting services at no charge in order to help further the future of citizen advocacy and improve the future of the country’s wild equine.
Our History
SANE Campaign, Save America's Native Equine was developed to tactically and methodically approach wild equine, wild life and other multi use draws on America's federal lands. Now is the right time to pool our efforts and resources to team and address wild horse needs. The initial goal will be to create a national base of support. This advocacy movement will rely solely on the power of constituents. Your voice will be heard.
Our Mission is to save wild equine on Federal Lands
We focus on making the maximum positive effect. Our members and volunteers provide the momentum we need. Using community driven models, we take actions that make a long-lasting difference.
A Winning Team
Please join us at
SANEAmbassadors@gmail.com. Share your name, state and what is most important to you in this fight.
Our amazing SANE Ambassadors are committed to saving our equine. We take our convictions and turn them into action. Think you would be a good fit? Please join us as a SANE Ambassador!
