Ep #5: Arapaho Creek: Interview with Angelique Rea
April 3, 2023
Please Comment to Save America’s Most Iconic Wild Horse Herd in the Pryor Mountains
April 25, 2023
My guest today made wild horses accessible to people with her stories of the stallion, Cloud. She showed that wild horses have society, friendships, relationships, personalities, and they have lives that you can follow and get to know. This made a huge difference in the public perception of wild horses, and her documentation of the Pryor Mountain Herd has led us into the world of wild horses.
Ginger Kathrens is an Emmy Award-winning producer, cinematographer, writer, editor, as well as an award-winning author. She introduced Cloud, Wild Stallion of the Rockies, to the world in her famous documentaries, giving us the first in-depth look at the rich and complex society of wild horses. Ginger is the founder of The Cloud Foundation and acts as the foundation’s Board President.
If you want to find out what the Bureau of Land Management’s new plan for the Pryor Mountain Herd is, then this episode is for you. We discuss the various actions that help wild horse herds thrive, including fertility control, and selective removal and proper rehoming, and how we can use your help.
To celebrate the launch of this show, I’m giving away a 12”x18” metal print of Blue Zeus called Into the Blue, and two signed copies of my book, Blue Zeus: Legend of the Red Desert, to three lucky listeners who follow, rate, and review the show. Click here to learn more about the contest and how to enter, I’ll be announcing the winners in a future episode.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- What is BLM’s new environmental assessment for the Pryor Mtn. Herd.
- Why herd population numbers are important.
- Darting for fertility control.
- How GonaCon is a major problem in the use for fertility control.
- Why selective removal can be good for herd health and continuity.
- How the current horse incentive programs may be doing more harm than good.
- What welfare ranching on public land is all about.
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Featured on the Show:
- To celebrate the launch of this show, I’m giving away a 12”x18” metal print of Blue Zeus called Into the Blue, and two signed copies of my book, Blue Zeus: Legend of the Red Desert, to three lucky listeners who follow, rate, and review the show. Click here to learn more about the contest and how to enter, I’ll be announcing the winners in a future episode.
- Living Images by Carol Walker
- Wild Hoofbeats Blog
- Wild Hoofbeats: America’s Vanishing Wild Horses by Carol Walker
- The Cloud Foundation: Website | Facebook
- Ginger’s films and tv series
- Ginger’s books
- Action Alert
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6 Comments
Hey Carol
Just wanted to mention that BLM extended the comment period for the Pryor’s to April 28. Something about their computer system being down, and they also added the 2009 HMAP to the list of documents.
Thank you for all you do for our wild horses and burros.
=Hi Carol, Thanks for doing this interview. I very much want to listen to it, but each time I try, the message says “unable to load media.” Is there another way I can listen? Thanks, Charlotte
thank you for hosting this, several of us are working on getting our comments together today . thanks for all you do!
Thank you!
You are so right the Bureau never seems to take in account the number of the horses that will pass away. They have no real idea .
Thank you Carol and Ginger for this valuable podcast explaining AML’s and the importance of genetic diversity in keeping viable herds. It is very frustrating that there are humane solutions that are being ignored by the BLM.