Time is Running Out for the Wild Horses of McCullough Peaks
November 2, 2023
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In the summer of 2004, I set out to find the wild horses in McCullough Peaks. It is a huge area of 120,000 acres of Plains Badlands, stunning views, and some of the most beautiful wild horses. On this particular day, I sat down at a distance from them and marveled at the variety of colors I saw, bays, browns, bay Pintos, sorrel Pintos, black and white Pintos, a gorgeous buckskin stallion and his buckskin family, blacks, grays, and palominos and more.
My favorite time of the day to visit the horses is at dawn. I love the soft quality and colors of the light. The horses are likely to be headed to water, which is a great time to see them interacting with one another, and sometimes even running in. Much of my time out there it’s just me and the horses. It is in times like this that I feel most part of the natural world. That is one of the gifts that these horses give me.
This week, tune in to hear about some of my favorite horses in McCullough Peaks. Every horse here has a story, relationships, a life. All of them deserve to live out their lives, wild and free in their home, on public lands, with their families. Sadly, the BLM has other horrible plans for them. The November 15th roundup needs to be stopped. And at this point, public outcry is the only thing left that can make a difference. We don’t want these precious wild horses to fade away into history.
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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- Why I find peace and connection with wild horses through early morning observations.
- Who these wild American horses are and why I find each one intriguing.
- How these families live, survive, and change, before and after roundups.
- What the fate is of McCullough Peaks wild horses with BLM’s newest plan if no action is taken.
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- Wild Hoofbeats: America’s Vanishing Wild Horses by Carol Walker
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- Photos of McCullough Peaks Horses
- McCullough Peaks HMA Map
- McCullough Peaks Talking Points – Nov. 15, 2023
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18 Comments
Please stop the Roundup of these beautiful historic horses. They have the right to be there it was given to them! You cannot take that away!
Please stop the round ups. These wild horses are historic, majestic and mythical to the American landscape.
People would pay to catch a glimpse of these wild families of horses.
Please
leave them be!!! They harm nothing, but add so much to the land…and to human profit (if that’s your motivation).
Please stop the round up
The families should remain free & wild fertilized could be an option.
J’aime les chevaux, je veux qu’ils restent libres.
Food, friends and freedom for all the horses.
The roundups of our native mustangs, in ALL HMA’s (herd management areas) need to stop pending a complete investigation into the wasteful spending of taxpayer’s money and inhumane handling of these precious icons.
There is no oversight of the BLM, bureau of land management and their blatant disregard of these animals and the publics right to oversee the roundups is insulting.
Please create an oversight committee to monitor the actions taking place in this department.
Please stop the round up & murdering and destroying the horses – this is their land/home too
Save these majestic animals! They have the right to remain on this land wild and free!! Stop the helicopter roundups!!
I have fallen in love with these horses PLEASE STOP THE ROUND UP
Please stop the round up of these beautiful horses. It seems so senseless & unnecessary when they have 120,000 acres to roam. I don’t understand because the population is being controlled with the PZP vaccine. It just makes no sense.
Les chevaux sauvages doivent rester sur leurs terres. Ils sont essentiels pour des raisons écologiques et pour préserver la survie de leur harde sans consanguinité.
PLEASE LEAVE THE HORSES ALONE , THEY BELONG HERE , IT PEOPLE THAT HURT OUR WILD LIFE THEY NEED TO BE LEFT ALONE ALL WILD LIFE NEED TO BE LEFT ALONE THERE NO NEED TO HURT THEM , AND THEY NOT HURTING ANY ONE THERE A ENOUGH LAND FOR CATTLE AND THE HORSE
These beautiful horses are 1. not over populated. 2. not starving . 3. not needing rounding up.
Stop this abuse of our horses.
Stop the roubd up, it’s animal cruelty!
Fill your hearts with love, instead of filling your pockets with money. Have a heart!! Just leave them alone. They are not hurting or bothering anyone or anything.
Please stop these unnecessary roundups! If the Wild horses have made it all of these years without mankind interfering and trying to control the number of horses allowed when they have so many acres that they can roam without hurting anyone or themselves!!! I just don’t deem it necessarily doing anything about them, then leave them to run Wild and free forever!!!