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Mankind and all of our technology cannot duplicate the symbiotic value that wild horses provide to plants and grasses on remote wildfire-prone wilderness landscapes.
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Laura J. Simpson put up a courageous 10-month battle fighting the effects of the Klamathon wildfire in California.
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The best science shows that restoring the herbivory results in cooler wildfires which can benefit forest and grassland ecosystems as well as soils.
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Bill Simpson feels that sanctuaries for wild horse management are at best “a band-aid”.
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Wildfire smoke likely cause of autoimmune mediated neurodegenerative disease that has struck down Laura Simpson.
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There are certainly other more compelling (dramatic) social issues that are positively affected by equine therapy.
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“When I see a vibrant adult [wild horse], I truly appreciate that it has survived some very tough odds.
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“We were intruding on a hallowed ritual, each of these beautiful sentient beings were bidding Pixie goodbye.”
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Horses, especially wild horses, have many abilities that humans are just beginning to understand, document and most importantly, explain to others, writes Bill Simpson.
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Using wild horses to graze grasslands to help reduce wildfire risk may not be too far in the future, as the BLM starts a project using cattle.
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Wildlife ecologist Craig C. Downer has just completed a study on wild horses in Oregon and their management on publicly owned land.
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For wild horses in their natural environment, it really is survival of the fittest.
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Through extensive selective breeding, desired characteristics and traits were greatly amplified while other known and unknown characteristics and traits were diminished and in some cases are likely lost in the new breeds.
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A pilot study seems logical if wild horses were carefully allocated into deer-depleted areas in and around remote forest areas with difficult terrain and access issues.
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“By altering the quantity and distribution of fuel supplies, large herbivores can shape the frequency, intensity, and spatial distribution of fires across a landscape.”
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Bill Simpson gets together with Craig Downer to delve into the many issues swirling around America’s wild horses and burros.
Read more Some scientists have said that horses have the intelligence of 12-year old humans. Imagine how they feel as they are run ragged by helicopters and other inhumane herding techniques.
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Since the transition to the ‘green movement’s’ methods of managing public forests in the 1990s, we are in fact actually losing many millions of acres of forest annually to catastrophic wildfire.
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Kudos to local legislators and citizens who are seeking genuine solutions to our shared nightmare of wildfires in the US.
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Our natural resources (and very society) are now at risk by the inaction of some legislators and the willful wrongful actions of others.
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