Good Morning Wild Ones!
I do profusely apologize for the lack of, well the lack of posts with just more than a picture and a few words and no rhyme or reason.
Life is well, life is complicated right now, and that darn peony may be telling me something I don't want to hear or accept.
In the meanwhile...enjoy this pic of Arey, (2019) wild bachelor, from one of our Wild Lands Wild Horses Series & Fund, Theodore Roosevelt National Park documentary shoots back in 2024. Jamie and I found him at the end of a very, long day just south of the Lower Talkington trail, as the sun slipped into the night.
If you aren't aware, the Australian Brumbies are going to be barbarically slaughtered in their wild homes, from helicopters, with sharp shooters, beginning next week. Left to lie and rot where they are shot.
In 2023, 6000 Brumbies were despicably slaughtered like this. 6000!
How in today's world can this make any sense? How can any human do that? This isn't a humanity that has evolved and learned from history, this is a humanity that is repeating history. Humans, we are the most predatory animal on the planet.
An animal that built the world, is a part of their heritage, no human could have done what they have done without that sentient animal, but because a 'narrative' has been perpetrated by government, these incredible animals loose their lives.
I am grateful our barbarism here in the U.S.A. doesn't include that type of wild horse management. Since the passing of the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, we have tried to make a difference for our wild ones. Their numbers have grown from almost extinction.
Unfortunately we have a long way to go to find sustainable solutions for all lives who call our public lands home.
History...history is why we are here today.
That history was undeniably built by a horse! Your history, my history, the world's history and this young stallion Arey! His history was here LONG before humans!
Arey, thank you for your gift!
I wrote this on May 7th to honor America's wild horses! Those wild ones on the range and the 18,000 plus needing homes off the range. With America's 250th birthday arriving quickly...without the horse it would never have happened!
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