The Wild Hoofbeats Blog

On Sunday, I was driving in Salt Wells Creek Herd Management Area in the Red Desert of Wyoming. This area is over 1 million acres in size, vast and beautiful in parts, with power plants, a few ranches, wildlife (which includes deer, antelope, and wild horses), plus cattle and sheep.  You can drive for over …

Here is an excellent article By Andrew Cohen in the Atlantic about the lawsuit that the Rock Springs Grazing Association brought against the BLM at the behest of the Department of the Interior.  Our wild horses will be the biggest losers in this lawsuit. “Say you were sitting in a law school classroom taking an …

The BLM has targeted the Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek Herds for complete destruction this coming summer. A Scoping Document has been published for the Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek Herds. Although the Adobe Town Herd is, even according to BLM estimates, NOT over AML, they still are planning to round up and …

Last week when I was driving in the northern part of the Sand Wash Basin Herd Area, I had Nancy Roberts with me. She has been observing, photographing, documenting and working to protect this herd since 2009. The Sand Wash Herd is in northwestern Colorado and is on over 150,000 acres. I first visited this …

Currently, the BLM is accepting public comments on a scoping document with the deadline of September 19, 2012 for its preparation of an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) for an eco-sanctuary for wild horses in northeastern Nevada. Yes, this is indeed the eco-sanctuary that Madeleine Pickens and her Save America’s Mustangs Foundation is proposing. Mrs. Pickens’ …

Last month, I was on top of the mountain spending an idyllic few days with Cloud’s herd in Montana.  I have been making the trip twice a year up the mountain in the summertime every year since 2004, and it is one of the highlights of my year. On this beautiful summer day, I was …

I just spent two days in the Pryor Mountains of Montana. Normally this time of year it is a beautiful and peaceful place to be.  Most of the horses in the herd are up in the high meadows, foals are playing, and it is peaceful, especially in the early mornings, my favorite time to be …

The BLM has issued a scoping notice for the McCullough Peaks Herd near Cody, Wyoming – I have been following and photographing this herd for 8 years “BLM Seeks Input on Bait Trapping for McCullough Peaks Herd The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cody Field Office is seeking public input on the use of bait …

  On Saturday morning, I drove to the Walmart in El Dorado, Kansas to go on the tour provided by the Bureau of Land Management of one of the largest Long Term Holding facilities for wild horses in the country.  With 4400 wild horses on 32000 acres, Bob Buford’s Shadow 7 Ranch is known to …

In the last month, I have visited and photographed the horses of Sand Wash Basin on two trips.  I had the wonderful experience of having Nancy Roberts go with me on one day on each trip, and she is the advocate who has spent the most time out in the herd area with the horses, …