Sadly this reporter is writing a very one sided, bias piece spilling with inaccuracies. The portion of the range was adjudicated to equines in 1971 has been overrun with ranchers. Private interest do not belong on public lands for profit. Ranch leases have been the same for decades, a net fiscal loss to the government and causing the bulk of the destruction to the range land. 
Does is really make sense to remove horses from the range to place them into costly holding pens while allowing ranchers to over run the range basically for free, while making a profit for their use? I would say no, that this makes zero fiscal sense. 
Ranchers cry poor me and twist the arms of the officials to remove the horses so they can continue their way of life, in spite of the fact that their living comes at the cost of the range lands and the American people. Just because the range historically served private interest, does not mean with the population growth that this can or should continue.