Disappointment Valley and beyond (all the way to Utah).
They’re beautiful, eh? I mean, what a view. 🙂
Eye candy
23 10 2018Comments : 4 Comments »
Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Big bad bobkitty
12 10 2018
OK, not “bad” at all – it just went with the headline. 🙂
SO COOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wildlife
The light of the rain
10 10 2018
Double rainbow over Spring Creek Basin from Disappointment Valley Road, looking southeast.
Rainbow over Seven’s swale in Spring Creek Basin.
The other end of the above rainbow. … It was INTENSE.
Temple Butte and McKenna Peak in the very last light of the post-storm day.
Glorious. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Blessed are those who wait for rain
8 10 2018
We’re not the most patient lot … but we just might be the most grateful. 🙂
Colorado Highway 141, across the top of the screen, runs across the broad, lower, northern end of Disappointment Valley. Southeast of the rightmost 141 marker and south of the open space in the green blob that is life-giving rain is Spring Creek Basin. The rain has fallen fairly steadily with small breaks since Saturday mid-afternoon.
The world as we know it is SOGGY. And it’s FABULOUS.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area
Fullness of beauty
24 09 2018
The full moon rises over Temple Butte and McKenna Peak on the eastern edge of Spring Creek Basin.
It’s officially autumn. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Drinking, calm
13 09 2018
After Comanche was sure the interloper meant no harm to his girls, he returned to the trough for a lonnnnnnnnnnnnggggggg drink of water. 🙂
I sat uphill from the trough to stay out of the way and had to get the camera low to see any of his eye (the eyes make the photos, they say, but even so, only part of his eye is visble) below the evaporation cover. That’s why there’s a soft layer of unfocused vegetation in the lower foreground.
The black square-looking thing in the center of the trough is actually a long rectangle made of steel mesh on a steel frame. It’s a critter ladder that provides a perch for birds and little beasts to get a drink without drowning. The stacked wood outside the trough slightly to the right is where the pipe from the tank comes out of the ground and into the trough. It’s filled with dirt to insulate it in the winter (when the water is turned off).
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Water catchment, Work projects
Prongs on the hill
11 09 2018
Our mustangs aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the basin’s water catchments. This handsome fellow waited on the hill for Comanche’s band to drink at the corral catchment (built just two years ago). The horses were VERY interested in him.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Water catchment, Wildlife, Work projects
Promise
2 09 2018
A little of those (dark clouds) led to a little bit of the wet stuff yesterday afternoon.
We love wet stuff. 🙂
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Lovely little walk
26 08 2018
Isn’t Spirit a gorgeous little girl? She IS little, and she’s just as sweet as she looks.
In good news, Disappointment Valley got a good dose of wet stuff yesterday evening. It wasn’t in the forecast, but it sure was a fabulous surprise!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Reminder
20 08 2018
One week from today, on Aug. 27, the deadline closes on your opportunity to affirm to Tres Rios BLM that yes, we want bait trapping to be the method of choice when it comes to gathering and removing our mustangs – IN the future, WHEN needed (which is not now).
Follow this link to information for DOI-BLM-CO-S010-2015-0001-EA (Spring Creek Basin HMA Bait Trap Gathers).
Refer also to this blog post – ‘Do NOT freak out!’ (because we are NOT removing horses) – for more information about what this EA is about and why it’s a good thing.
The deadline for comments is Aug. 27, 2018. Please do comment favorably about bait trapping in Spring Creek Basin (in the future, when needed): Alternative A – proposed action: “The proposed action would utilize bait/water trapping as the primary gather method to remove excess wild horses from the HMA. No wild horses would be removed as long as population was or remained within AML.”
The population of Spring Creek Basin’s mustang herd IS within current AML (which is 35 to 65 adult horses, and yes, we know that’s fairly low, and yes, we are working to get that raised in the hopefully-soon-to-be-updated herd management area plan). NO removals of any mustangs from Spring Creek Basin are planned or “on the horizon,” as our herd manager, Mike Jensen, has told us.
Thank you to all who have sent in their comment letters! We appreciate it more than you can imagine. Please also let Tres Rios BLM staff know that you appreciate their commitment to Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs, as well as to the volunteer advocates who support them and partner with Tres Rios BLM for the horses’ continued good management. 🙂
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