Latest science highlights wild horse over-population myth and mismanagement
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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Author: William E. Simpson
Wild horses: Are they being managed to extinction?
For wild horses in their natural environment, it really is survival of the fittest.
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The many powers of wild horses: Is it all in the genetics?
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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Call for horse grazing pilot study to explore wildfire mitigation
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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Fire grazing: Why wild horses can do better than cattle in wildfire battle
“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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Renowned wildlife ecologist and author endorses ‘Wild Horse Fire Brigade’
Bill Simpson gets together with Craig Downer to delve into the many issues swirling around America’s wild horses and burros.
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Are horses as smart as humans?
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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Environmental groups “completely off-base” in protecting natural resources
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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Congressman points wild horse fire control plan to BLM and US Forest Service
Kudos to local legislators and citizens who are seeking genuine solutions to our shared nightmare of wildfires in the US.
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Wild horses and resource management: Is government looking the other way?
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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Wild horses, wildfire and wildlife: An overlooked ecological imbalance
The new breed of super-hot wildfires are actually quite simple to understand and to explain.
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The three great myths about America’s wild horses
These days most grazing herbivores wild or domestic have lobbies based-upon an economic foundation.
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California wildfire disaster: New plan unveiled to save lives and natural resources
The US ecosystem is out of balance, which has led to forest fires becoming a growing problem impacting America and its citizens.
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Evolution of wild horses and cattle and the effect on range damage
Most people who enter into the debate on the causes of the degradation of range-land and riparian areas have some gaps in their understanding as to the evolutionary origins and differences between wild horses and cattle.
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The deforestation of America: Wild horses lose out to cheap grazing and beef for China
In parts of the world forests have been intentionally burned to create more cheap grazing lands, and to some extent, that is already happening right here in America. When forests burn these areas are converted to range lands for decades, sometimes permanently.
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Megafires and terrorism: Are horses the answer to an overlooked threat?
Wildfires have become so devastating that they are now considered by some analysts as serious threats to the national security of the United States.
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“Wild Horse Fire Brigade” concept under US Dept of Interior review
Concept could make a very important contribution to saving US forests and related natural resources.
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The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act: No panacea for wild horses
The key to success seems to be obtained by providing Sec. Zinke with a logical alternative path to slaughter or euthanasia (that doesn’t create a conflict of interest with other stakeholders like the cattle industry) as the BLM’s solution to the fiscal crises related to maintaining the wild horses in the pens.
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Can the Wild Horse Fire Brigade really work?
Wherever a species of large herbivore has its population depleted, vegetation becomes excessive, allowing catastrophic wildfires to take over.
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The politicization of the plight of wild horses and burros in America
Some of the most important intentions of the 1971 Wild Burro & Horse Protection Act were stated with these words: “wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death”.
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