Kiowa’s band walks across the sage- and grass-covered range to join other bands in a big group of marvelous mustangs at sunset.
Sand Wash Basin is amazing, amazing country. Mustang country!
Good for the heart
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Categories : Advocacy, Education, Mustangs, Sand Wash Basin, Work projects
Yellow pops
1 10 2016
Hello, my pretty!
This sweet filly was calm and curious while I visited her band just after sunset in Sand Wash Basin. It was a fantastic welcome to this wide-open range in northwestern Colorado … capped by the full moon rising over the very-far-away horizon!
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Categories : Advocacy, Education, Mustangs, Partnership, Sand Wash Basin, Work projects
Locks to love
30 09 2016
Isn’t this gorgeous boy handsome?
In some cases, the continued use of the word “gorgeous” may be considered overuse. Not so in the case of Sand Wash Basin’s mustangs!
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Categories : Advocacy, Education, Mustangs, Partnership, Sand Wash Basin, Work projects
Two, cute
29 09 2016
Pinto mare and foal in Sand Wash Basin.
Like mother, like daughter – pinto beauties Mimi and Braley in Voodoo’s band. They’re a daughter and granddaughter of the handsome and very popular Picasso. We saw him one evening on the way to camp, but those are “pictures” in my memory only. 🙂
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Great and wide
28 09 2016
Sand Wash Basin stallion
Be still my wild heart. This is Star, also pictured a few days ago with the setting full moon. Isn’t he phenomenal?
Note the ears in the sagebrush in front of Star. That’s the yearling colt in his band (his son?), Meteor.
And notice that big, big, wide-open country. Mustang country, for sure!
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Handsome times two
27 09 2016
Stallions Cosmo and Kiowa have an early morning chat at the dawn of a beautiful September day in Sand Wash Basin.
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Boys being boys
26 09 2016
These two boys entertained themselves for a while on a beautiful morning in Sand Wash Basin. Mostly, they were too far for decent photos, but then they came trotting past us – us being other peacefully grazing bands. They carried their own energy through and past.
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Reds and golds
25 09 2016
This sweet sorrel foal was a beautiful subject at sunrise in Sand Wash Basin. Love those backlit whiskers!
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Sand Wash Basin advocates get ’er done
20 09 2016
This handsome hunky stallion is Star, and he lives with his family in Sand Wash Basin, in northwestern Colorado. He posed extremely considerately Sunday morning with the setting full moon.
This past weekend, Michelle Sander, Aleta Wolf, Stella Trueblood and others with Great Escape Mustang Sanctuary and Sand Wash Advocate Team, along with Gina Robison with BLM’s Little Snake Field Office in Craig, hosted about 50 people who came from near and far (including Texas, Missouri and Toronto, Canada) to help with work projects that directly and indirectly benefit those gorgeous mustangs.
SWAT members are directly responsible for the successful PZP program in Sand Wash Basin. In place for just about three years now, it’s having a direct impact on slowing the population growth of this popular herd. BLM plans a bait-trapping operation there later this fall, with which SWAT and GEMS will be intimately involved. BLM plans to remove 50 horses. They’ll go to Cañon City for “processing” (brands, vaccinations, gelding, etc.), then to GEMS, in northeastern Colorado, to be gentled and offered for adoption through GEMS’ partnership with BLM as a TIP storefront.
Read more about the great weekend of camaraderie, work projects and MUSTANGS in this Craig Daily Press article.
SWAT and GEMS and all the folks associated with these groups are doing phenomenal work for this beautiful herd. Any chance you get, please send out your thanks to these ladies and gents. They are compassionate and passionate, considerate, caring and vastly knowledgeable.
In short: They rock. 🙂
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Categories : Advocacy, Education, Fence work, Fertility control, Mustangs, Partnership, PZP, PZP-22, Sand Wash Basin, Wild horses in the news, Work projects
Raise your voices
15 09 2016
For those of you waiting for a way to tell BLM that you won’t stand for the mass slaughter of wild horses and burros in holding, please visit the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign’s website: http://act.wildhorsepreservation.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=23589
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Right after I sent my own comments, this popped up in my emaill from a friend: http://news.trust.org/item/20160914201301-s43hn
Thankful. 🙂
But we need to continue to tell BLM – and the U.S. government – that the threat of slaughtering and/or sterilizing our wild horses and burros is not acceptable. Humane solutions exist – including PZP and reopening ranges that BLM has zeroed out, enabling horses in holding to return to the dignity of life on the range.
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Categories : Advocacy, Education, Mustangs, Partnership, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wild horses in the news
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 