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.
Read moreThe new breed of super-hot wildfires are actually quite simple to understand and to explain.
Read moreThese days most grazing herbivores wild or domestic have lobbies based-upon an economic foundation.
Read moreThe US ecosystem is out of balance, which has led to forest fires becoming a growing problem impacting America and its citizens.
Read moreMost 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreWildfires have become so devastating that they are now considered by some analysts as serious threats to the national security of the United States.
Read moreConcept could make a very important contribution to saving US forests and related natural resources.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreWherever a species of large herbivore has its population depleted, vegetation becomes excessive, allowing catastrophic wildfires to take over.
Read moreSome 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”.
Read moreWild horses’ immunity to prions – the toxins causing Chronic Wasting Disease – gives them a unique place on the range lands.
Read moreWild horses can prevent catastrophic fires because they are able to consume dry, fire-prone vegetation over vast areas of the west.
Read moreThe vast majority of humans living on the planet today are disconnected from the planet, each other, and the discrete dialog that exists between the planet and the multitude of species that inhabit it.
Read moreTiny filly Star faced her short life with the courage of a great warrior and a glad heart.
Read moreIn light of the symbiosis between rangeland grasses and wild horses, it makes sense that wild horses would be a native species on the range, and cattle would be the invasive species in largely ‘parasitic relationship’ role on the range.
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