Sweet Cassidy Rain is framed by McKenna Peak (right) and Temple Butte (left).
Just a little breeze and lots of life-giving snow.
Breezy beauty
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Wind! What wind?!
13 02 2019
Puzzle, ever the fashionista, rocks the winter wind with her wind-knotted wild mane. 🙂
Seriously, who needs Show Sheen?! Not this marvelous mustang mare!
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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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Diggin’ it
21 01 2019
Lower Disappointment Valley has melted into basic brown again, for the most part. High temps melt snow, which creates mud, which leads to undriveable roads.
Naturally, we’re craving colder temps and more snow. 🙂
As I type this Sunday evening, we’re hoping Monday’s forecast for snow proves accurate, even down here in the “low lands.”
Above, Killian was digging through the (fairly) new snow to get to the grass beneath. They’re working a bit harder for their grub this winter (!), but they take it all as it comes. They’re WILD, after all! 🙂
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Our Pati
8 01 2019
Check out this wonderful article in the Telluride Daily Planet by writer Katie Klingsporn:
https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_d8e1bd26-112e-11e9-b31f-0f3d56d820bc.html
In the photo above, Temple Butte is the prominent promontory behind snow-covered McKenna Peak (shaped like a pyramid).
Seneca is the lovely mustang, walking through her lovely, winter-white-coated world.
Thanks so much to all who contributed to the success of our application to name Temple Butte in honor of Pati (and David) Temple. It’s the least we could do to honor a woman who did so much for the wild she knew and loved.
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Categories : Advocacy, Disappointment Valley, Disappointment Wild Bunch Partners, Education, Fertility control, McKenna Peak, Mustangs, National Mustang Association/CO, Partnership, PZP, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte, Wild horses in the news
Temple Butte forever!
19 12 2018
It’s official! Temple Butte IS Temple Butte!
Just last night, we received word that our application* to name Temple Butte, above Spring Creek Basin’s eastern boundary, in honor of our beloved and much-missed Pati Temple was approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
We are ecstatic. 🙂
Pati was an integral part of NMA/CO‘s long mission to protect and preserve Spring Creek Basin’s mustangs in a way that sustains both the herd and the range upon which they depend. With perseverance and commitment, our partnership with BLM’s Tres Rios Field Office is stronger than ever, and our horses and their range are beautiful and healthy.
We are forever grateful for Pati’s guiding light, and, thus named, Temple Butte now is a testament to her memory.
The formerly unnamed promontory has its forever name. 🙂 Just in time for Christmas!
*Heartfelt thanks to Ann Bond for her diligent efforts gathering and submitting the paperwork for the application!
** Another aside: Pati is responsible for Seneca’s name. 🙂
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Blue and grey and white
11 12 2018
The snow has soaked in by now, leaving the ground once again brown. But by the mud that came later, moisture was enjoyed. 🙂
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Drama girl
8 12 2018
It looks like our snow chances have passed by, but there’s still snow on the ground in many places, so that moisture is still soaking in. We’ll take what we can get!
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Beauty wrapped in white
7 12 2018
Fortunately for the sake of this photo, a horse was behind Terra, and when she looked around at him, she paused to look at me as she turned back to her grazing. And shazam: Terra and the icons of Spring Creek Basin.
Glorious. 🙂
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It’s beginning to look like …
5 12 2018
… a little drought relief. 🙂
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 