Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Playing in the soil

2 04 2025

I am giddy with excitement and anticipation. 🙂 First of all, we have our full BLM range team back together again! As of Monday, rangeland management specialist Ryan Schroeder is fully reinstated and back to work with range specialist Anton Rambur and range tech Laura Heaton at Tres Rios Field Office. And he got to get his hands dirty – literally – with Anton (Laura was under the weather) out in Spring Creek Basin yesterday to …

…uh … just what the heck WERE these guys doing?!

A hint is in the background. 🙂

Leave a guess in the comments and let me know just what the heck you think these funny guys were doing!

All will be revealed soon, and it’s going to be awesome!

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Categories : Advocacy, Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Education, Partnership, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Tres Rios Field Office, Work projects

No joke

1 04 2025

Spring Creek Basin and its mustangs really are that stunningly gorgeous. 🙂

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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte

Hurrying after

31 03 2025

After allowing her to cross an arroyo and continue grazing ahead, Corazon hustles after his mare.

No point in getting left behind.

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Radiant Rowan

30 03 2025

When we first got Rowan from Sand Wash Basin, they thought she was a mare named Radiant. Then, no, she’s not Radiant, she’s Rowan. … Yes, she’s really both. 🙂

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Always loved, lovely

29 03 2025

Prettiest Winona grazed and moseyed, moseyed and grazed … and eventually, she blessed me with a *look*. 🙂

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

One wild life

28 03 2025

Isn’t it amazing that we have these wild, wide-open places in America? For our wild horses, our wildlife and wild lives?

Love them. Protect them.

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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Cacophony of spring

27 03 2025

Do you know how hard it is to photograph bees buzzing around just-flowered apricot buds?

It’s hard. 🙂

Harder than photographing birds!

I wish I could photograph the *sound* of the buzzing of the bees around the apricot tree. That, my friends, is the very sound of spring.

With temps very near 80F the last couple of days, and all manner of singing spring signs, I’d say spring is well and truly here. … Now if only we could get some April showers …!

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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring

Girl in the gold

26 03 2025

Temple was grazing above the Spring Creek arroyo, and here, she had paused for just a few seconds to look at some band members crossing the arroyo before she resumed her grazing in the very last light of a very beautiful day in Spring Creek Basin.

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Categories : Spring Creek, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Twice as nice

25 03 2025

The greasewood is budding. Finally. That’s what Tenaz is going after here. It’s full of protein, and it’s my experience that once they start noshing on the greasewood, their coats start shedding, and spring is well and truly begun. 🙂

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Spring fuzzies

24 03 2025

A young bull elk and a cow elk check me out from right above Disappointment Creek, which still is not running yet this year. They still look awfully fuzzy don’t they? The temp was at least 67F in the valley yesterday. Spring is here.

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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Creek, Disappointment Valley, Elk, Wildlife