The Wild Hoofbeats Blog

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, …

I am writing to you today about the BLM’s plans to remove 30 young horses from Cloud’s herd this year.  Many of you have already written to the Billings BLM and I thank you very much for doing that.  Yesterday The Cloud Foundation posted an urgent plea to help save Cloud’s grandson Echo.  If you …

“Ugly” is a good description for the Rock Springs Grazing Association’s plans for Wyoming’s wild horses. They brought a lawsuit against the BLM (on the BLM’s recommendation!) to have them remove all the wild horse from 4 of the largest herd areas in the country: Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek, White Mountain and Great Divide …

When I arrived for the second day of the Great Divide Basin Roundup, the “bad” became evident.  They were loading up horses, the mares and foals to go to Rock Springs, the stallions to go to Utah, and I found out that all of the horses gathered at this trap site were to be removed …

You might be asking yourself, “what on earth could be good about roundups?”  Well, I agree with you – just about nothing but sometimes there are kernels of good news mixed in with the bad.  One reason I do attend roundups is I can usually learn some things I never would have without that opportunity …

Two weeks ago I traveled a road that I have traveled every year since 2004, the road up to the top of the Pryor Mountains.  My goal was to find and photograph Cloud’s herd. But things are different this year.  I drive up the road from Sage Creek Campgrounds, through the forest service lands, and …

Last week I headed to Rock Springs, Wyoming so that I could spend time with two wild horse herds that the Bureau of Land Management plans to decimate this summer: White Mountain and Great Divide Basin. It had been 4 years since I had visited  these two herd areas, and I wasn’t sure what to …

In Wyoming last October, as I photographed the brave fight an older gray stallion put up to save his family from the helicopter and the trap, I had no way of knowing that there would be a way for him to be free again.  I watched him valiantly struggle to keep his family from the …

This is from R. T. Fitch:  Suggested action needed NOW for our wild horses Congress will be voting soon  – we need to get the word out, so please copy and paste this everywhere you can: Please copy and paste this entire post to email and get it out to all your email lists, FB, …

The brightest, best part of the Adobe Town roundup was at the end of the first day, on the way back to town after the helicopter had landed, I found a beautiful band of horses, still wild and free. A pale palomino colt ran, chasing his older brother, as his father, a gorgeous sorrel stallion …