Craig Carpenter Downer championing the plight of wild horses- wrote the following poem, published in "Streams of the Soul," while walking in a Nevada desert:
Poem to Wild Horses
I write a poem
about the wild horse,
'cause there's a lot of feeling here,
albeit much long suffering
and abuse by man - most gruesome!
... Yet, too, vast wide-open spaces,
and MANY lives lived out
with Grace and in Joyful Freedom!
-T'is a saga of the Old West
- and I believe the New -
this story of the wild horse,
this enduring, wind-drinking
runner of desert and plain,
as - Alas!- of very Time!
His story is one with yours and mine.
May he reach far upon this Earth Plane!
For 't is a saga of what this Land is yet to be,
of a Destiny yet unfulfilled,
when Man and Horse in Freedom live
once again with mutual Respect.
full story - http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20060115/Community/101150010/-1/rss01
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Sunday, January 01, 2006
24,500 wild horses and burros in holding facilities
Romance meets reality
By ELECTA DRAPER
The Denver Post Saturday, December 31, 2005
DOVE CREEK, Colo. - The notion of wild horses roaming the American West might be more a national delusion than a reality.
Almost 35 years ago Congress proclaimed that the West's wild horses were an American treasure. It passed a law in 1971 to protect them from slaughter.
But the realities of the Bureau of Land Management wild horse and burro program are different from the romantic images painted then by Congress and still held by many Americans.
Because for the roughly 32,000 wild horses and burros roaming the range in 10 Western states, there were, by October of this year, 24,500 wild horses and burros in holding facilities.
Of last year's BLM wild horse and burro budget of $39.6 million, more than half, $20.1 million, was spent to keep the animals off the range and in these holding facilities.
full story
By ELECTA DRAPER
The Denver Post Saturday, December 31, 2005
DOVE CREEK, Colo. - The notion of wild horses roaming the American West might be more a national delusion than a reality.
Almost 35 years ago Congress proclaimed that the West's wild horses were an American treasure. It passed a law in 1971 to protect them from slaughter.
But the realities of the Bureau of Land Management wild horse and burro program are different from the romantic images painted then by Congress and still held by many Americans.
Because for the roughly 32,000 wild horses and burros roaming the range in 10 Western states, there were, by October of this year, 24,500 wild horses and burros in holding facilities.
Of last year's BLM wild horse and burro budget of $39.6 million, more than half, $20.1 million, was spent to keep the animals off the range and in these holding facilities.
full story
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