The title says it all.
Healthy horse, healthy range
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Strollin’
8 08 2017
Hunky chunky Hollywood!
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Lookin’ good
6 08 2017
Seven at home.
We should all be so lucky. 🙂
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In living color
28 07 2017
Rain at sunset over Utah’s La Sal Mountains, looking to the northwestish – golden rain.
And looking to the eastish across Spring Creek Basin to McKenna Peak, Temple Butte, Brumley Point and beyond … pink rain.
Mother Nature has a pretty amazing palette out here in the wide, wild, beautiful world. 🙂
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Categories : Brumley Point, Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, McKenna Peak, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Awash in beauty
18 07 2017
Storm’s band is just below the rise where he’s standing, and he’s looking back at a nearby band being followed by a bachelor.
Really, it’s impossible to describe such feelings of beauty- and peace-in-the-moment. It was a magical evening of wild horses and wild places and wild beauty and such blazing, stunning contentment. And it’s available to everyone because these are OUR wild horses and OUR wild beautiful places; OUR public lands.
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What we love
6 07 2017For God so loved the world …
How can you not believe in a higher power with so much gorgeousity in the world?
(The image of the moon was taken a few evenings ago. All others were taken last night at the very end of the beautiful day (which included very heavy smoke from the East Rim Fire throughout Disappointment Valley during the afternoon).)
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Strollin’
28 06 2017
Lots of on-by walkin’ goin’ on these days. All the better to evade the gnats!
S’aka the mighty looks like a giant against Temple Butte and McKenna Peak. 🙂
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Sleepies
27 06 2017
Storm and Gaia take a quick pony nap in a rare bit of cloud-induced shade while Temple Butte and McKenna Peak are shining in the sunlight. Clouds are in short supply, and we relish every bit of shade that comes our way.
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If you want the rainbow …
23 06 2017
… watch the pot of gold?
With love and respect to Dolly Parton, who said, “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain,” we don’t always get the rain.
Not that we don’t desperately WANT and NEED the rain! We do! But the pictured rainbow appeared with nary a drop to the ground.
While trying to find Dolly’s exact quote, here’s another one with no credit given:
“Everybody wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.”
Except when you’re in the desert Southwest, on the high Colorado Plateau, specifically in a region that hasn’t had measurable, hit-the-ground (or a rain gauge) moisture for 33 days and counting … where we have tantalizing, tempting, teasing virga.
I had just been visiting with a few bands of mustangs … and was on my back-to-the-Jeep hike when the rainbow appeared. Of course. 🙂 Still, we all know the composition of our “pot of gold” in Spring Creek Basin!
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Assessments, Day 2
22 06 2017Yesterday was Day 2 of the Land Health Assessment in Spring Creek Basin.
Yep, it was hot. Yep, the gnats were still bad (but yours truly remembered her head net).
Mike Jensen, Justin Hunt and Nate West were back to assess more of Spring Creek Basin’s land health. We did some great sites, and a couple of them were higher, which allowed for great views!
BLM range management specialist Mike Jensen and range tech Justin Hunt walk a site in Spring Creek Basin with views of McKenna Peak and Temple Butte.
At the end of each site assessment, Justin and Mike took pix in two directions for future comparisons.
We don’t have many trees in Spring Creek Basin, so many of the sites were the wide-open places (as in the photos above). But we had a couple of sites that were in pinon-juniper woodlands. This site (and the one pictured above) had really great grass.
And then we headed uphill for our last site of the day.
Which led to an amazing view. Straight ahead is Brumley Point, and at the farthest left is one side of McKenna Peak.
Those who go up must go down! Especially when the truck is at the bottom. 🙂
Big thanks to BLM’s Mike Jensen, Justin Hunt and Nate West for persevering on these hot days to assess the land health of Spring Creek Basin. Again, as far as I can tell, we’re in pretty good shape.
We think this little guy (gal?) might agree. 🙂
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