Sometimes the world is too beautiful for words.
Full moon rising
18 08 2016Comments : 5 Comments »
Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte
Black is beauty
17 08 2016
Pretty Raven in the secret forest.
Many readers know that Raven was born and raised in Sand Wash Basin and came here in 2008 with Mona and Kootenai to help boost our genetics. Because Spring Creek Basin’s appropriate management level currently is just 35 to 65 adult horses, BLM periodically introduces horses in order to help keep our herd’s genetics viable, per a recommendation by equine geneticist Dr. Gus Cothran (at my alma mater, Texas A&M University).
An EA has recently been released for a bait-trapping operation in Sand Wash Basin. Information about where to send your comments by the Sept. 4 deadline may be found here, in a news brief in the Craig Daily Press.
“The BLM seeks comment on the Environmental Assessment of this gather plan, available at the Little Snake Field Office at 455 Emerson St., Craig, CO 81625 and online at: 1.usa.gov/23gjg6w. Public comments will be most helpful to the BLM if received by Sept. 4. Written comments can be mailed to the Little Snake Field Office or submitted via email to blm_co_sandwash_hma@blm.gov.”
(Note that the website indicated in the press release leads to an error page.)
Of note in the very positive category, Great Escape Mustang Sanctuary and Sand Wash Advocate Team are specifically mentioned for their partnership with BLM in managing this herd: “Our partnership with SWAT and GEMS has been vital to meeting our goal of maintaining the health of the Sand Wash wild horses and the lands they depend upon,” BLM Northwest District Manager Joe Meyer said in a news release.
Also: “While confined in a corral, BLM employees and Sand Wash Advocacy Team members would identify mares, that would be treated with a contraceptive called PZP, which delays fertilization, before being released back to the range. Up to 50 young wild horses would be removed for placement in the Great Escape Mustang Sanctuary training and adoption program.”
Please take a look at the EA and send comments. SWAT volunteers are currently using fertility control in Sand Wash Basin, and they need support in order to continue their efforts to manage this herd well.
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Categories : Adoption, Advocacy, Education, Fertility control, Mustangs, Partnership, PZP, PZP-22, Roundup, Sand Wash Basin, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wild horses in the news
Happy anniversary, Mom & Dad!
16 08 2016
My mom and dad met as high schoolers (different schools), showing horses. Through Ohio State University (Dad) and Akron City Hospital (Mom’s nursing school), through 20 years as an officer with the U.S. Army (domestically and overseas) and as a nurse in many of those locations, we had horses in as many places as possible.
Their love for each other and their love of horses has been present throughout my life and my brother’s. And their love of all of us – and themselves! – continues. 🙂
Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Free ’n easy
15 08 2016
“Free and easy … like the wind in your hair …
“Free and easy … that’s gonna get you there.”
Another nod to Dave Stamey for the words in today’s post.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
His is the face
14 08 2016
That’s the face of a handsome boy – Grey/Traveler – who has been photographed sooooo many times and is soooo over it. 🙂
Ah … but he still makes my heart flutter. He’s so good to even look up from his grazing!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Living wild
13 08 2016
She may not be the prettiest gal in the basin, but she’s awfully sweet. She was watching her stallion watch another stallion across an open expanse of sage and saltbush and lots and lots of amazing green grass (thank you, rain!).
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
BFFs
12 08 2016
Oh, these girls. Look at their plump healthiness.
Love.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Bugs-b-gone
11 08 2016
After a mud bath earlier in the day, Chrome decided that a dust bath was in order to solidify his caked armor against the biting flies. And boy, are they biting. Moisture brings bugs … in addition to sprouts of new grass, springing up everywhere, for which we’re very, very grateful. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Happy birthday, Dad!
10 08 2016
Happy birthday to my dad, who is a most awesome dad! He and my mom are totally responsible (to blame) for my utter addiction to horses. I don’t see them often enough, but at Thanksgiving, we’ll spend some time together and ride some horses together, and I’m looking forward to that holiday of gratitude.
In the meantime, have a beautiful, wild, wonderful birthday, Dad!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The bugs of summer
9 08 2016
A friend who follows baseball says the boys of summer play about 987 games per season (that may be a slight exaggeration; I can never remember). But to the mustangs, the buggy days of summer may feel at least that long. But as we make the turn toward fall, the days are getting cooler – dropping into the lower 90s from the upper 90s and 100s – and the swarms of biting, buzzing bugs are lessening to mere clouds.
We did get rain, which has been an enormous and huge relief and help.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
