Chipeta shines. 🙂
Glow in the snow
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The view from here
30 01 2019
Our mule deer friends are back in the valley. 🙂 We’ve missed them. (Elk are back, too, most often visible very early and/or very late.)
This scene was photographed from Disappointment Valley Road in lower Disappointment Valley looking east-ish toward Spring Creek Basin. Pyramid-shaped McKenna Peak and prominent promontory Temple Butte are familiar in the background. The sort of mid-ground area is Spring Creek Basin.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Lovely
29 01 2019
Maia stands pretty as a picture with the south wall of Spring Creek canyon visible in the background.
The snow is melting fast, but in a week, we have a week’s worth of rain (!) chances in the forecast.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Snow white
28 01 2019
Pure as the driven snow, Miss Piedra. 🙂
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Out here, government employees aren’t nameless and faceless, one or more of the 800,000 workers adversely affected by the government shutdown. They’re our partners, they’re members of our communities. They visit our local farmers markets, and their kids and our kids are classmates. We work together for common goals.
Yesterday, as I was driving out of Spring Creek Basin, our lead BLM law-enforcement ranger, Tyler, was headed into the basin, in uniform and driving his BLM vehicle. He and his law-enforcement fellows have been required to be on the job – without pay – but I know him and others like him well enough to know that it is at least moral duty, not simply required duty. It’s a duty to protect the resources of our local community, which, in our case (as in most across the West), is large, wide and sprawling, not easily connected.
And yet, on the Sunday before government resumes operations, Tyler was in Disappointment Valley, headed toward Spring Creek Basin, checking on our mustangs and the range that sustains them.
We ARE connected. And we’re grateful for our neighbors. We hope the (temporary) return to business is for the good of all our government-employed neighbors.
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Categories : Partnership, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Squinty
27 01 2019
All the horses have been a little narrow-eyed lately with the bright sunlight on the pristine snow. Even humans keep the shades on during these bright winter days!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Two good girls
26 01 2019
In the great white winter expanse, these two girls are beautiful girls. 🙂
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Hill with a view
25 01 2019
Mariah has quite a view from the north hills of Spring Creek Basin.
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Snoozy in the sunshine
24 01 2019
Piedra and Kestrel relax in sunshine and snow on a cold day in Spring Creek Basin. The light reflecting off the snow made it very comfortable for a snooze, despite the air temperature.
NOT comfortable was hearing the baying of hounds to the north. Around here, hunters find the tracks of mountain lions, bobcats and coyotes in the snow, then send dogs after them. I don’t believe the dogs were in the basin, but the baying sent at least one band trotting away, and at the same time, a group of at least 50 elk went streaming south out of the trees on the north hills, running from human-induced pressure during a season when they should be conserving energy, not wasting it. … Imagine the animals that cannot escape that pressure.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Cold camo
23 01 2019
Because you can never see too much of this lovely pinto pony who thinks she blends in to her snowy environment. 🙂
Spring Creek Basin got 1 to 3 inches of snow Monday night. Then we had wind, which already scoured some places free or nearly free of snow. It’s very nice to have more moisture!
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Always a good time for snow
22 01 2019
The region got some more snow. Not as much as pictured above, with Puzzle, from a few weeks ago, but it’s always nice to get moisture. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 