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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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