Ep #30: Following Oregon’s Wild Horses: Interview with Mustang Meg

Have you ever wondered what it’s like going out in the wild looking for wild horses in Oregon? If so, this episode with Mustang Meg is for you.

Sonya Spaziani, or Mustang Meg as you may know her best, has been following Oregon’s wild horses since 1994. She joins me this week to share more about her experiences documenting, following, and photographing wild horses and educate all of us about why we need to preserve them.

Join us this week to learn more about Mustang Meg’s journey, where her interest in wild horses came from, and how she started documenting wild horses in Oregon. She shares more about her favorite encounters out on the Steens, what she enjoys most about what she does, the differences between Oregon’s wild horses and horses from other states, and what she hopes to see for the future of these beautiful horses moving forward.

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• The power of photos and videos in documenting the lives of these horses.
• Why it helps so much to have people naming and recognizing the wild horses of Oregon.
• The problem with some of the methods being used by the BLM to manage these horses.
• What Mustang Meg believes to be the solution for preserving these wild horses in their natural habitats.
• The reasons we don’t want wild horses becoming comfortable around or getting too close to people.
• The unique problems faced by the wild horses of Oregon.  

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• Living Images by Carol Walker
• Wild Hoofbeats Blog
• Wild Hoofbeats: America’s Vanishing Wild Horses by Carol Walker
• Mustang Meg: Website | YouTube | Facebook
• The Oregon Mustang Group on Facebook

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