Saturday, September 30, 2017

Wyoming's Wild Horse Roundup 2017

 
 
I must share with you this account of what happened at one of the helicopter roundups this week.

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 The Checkerboard Roundup Day 7 – Great Divide Basin by Carol J. Walker

http://www.wildhoofbeats.com/blog/the-checkerboard-roundup-day-7-great-divide-basin

 

And here are some of my pictures from last Monday, after witnessing such an atrocity one day in the American West. 

 

These are the faces and families of horses who did NOT get rounded up that day.

After all the helicopters shut down for the night, the jute fencing and traps removed and the last trailer they crammed with mustangs sped off in a cloud of dust, Carol and I found some WILD and FREE horses enjoying the mid-day sun. 

It was hard for me to take their pictures. My heart wasn't into it. I sat down next to some rabbit brush staring at these family bands and thought about tomorrow.

Most likely I would recognize their eyes through the bars of a trailer taking them far, far away from their home, in yet another cloud of dust.

The Bureau of Land Management just doing "business as usual" without a care in the world. 

I will be heading out to the Great Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek or perhaps Adobe Town in the Red Desert (they never tell us where we're going until we get there) next Sunday to photograph and document more of these unnecessary and relentless removals of America's Mustangs. 

Thank you for being here. 

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3 comments:

  1. what really rips my heart apart is putting myself in the shoes [so to speak] of these magnificent wild creatures, what they are experiencing, what they see, how they feel.

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  2. Exactly. They end up defeated, broken and terribly, terribly sad.
    And they never forget what life was like before the copter blades push them from their prairie grasses, that horrible unnatural roar, those so-called wranglers shaking plastic grocery bags in their face. They never forget those men separating them from their moms, shoving them into a cramped and dirty truck and spending that night in an iron pen, crying out to his family in the dark. No matter what, horses never forget. Even if one is lucky enough to get adopted, that mustang will never be truly forgiving.
    Thank you so much for your caring comment! xO

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  3. Heartbreaking. Totally and completely heartbreaking. I am thoroughly embarrassed to live in a tima and place where this happens.

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