I have been out to the Onaqui mustangs several times since the roundup but haven’t felt like posting images. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad we have some horses to photograph but not being able to photograph some of my favorite families has been heart-breaking… Many of the released horses are pairing up in very small groups and remaining in the mountains. They feel safe from helicopters there. Over the years when Blackhawk helicopters from Dugway were flying low over the herd they would head straight to the mountains.
The good news is that there are horses to photograph. The bad news is that very few of the “families” that were together pre-roundup were released back. I am hoping that new family bonds will start to evolve, but the horses are so spread out that it might be hard for that to occur. It is difficult to try and rationalize how/why the BLM would to this to our magnificent wild horses. The BLM continues with their “emergency roundups” throughout the West. The wild horse populations will never be the same.
Anyway, here are some images of the remaining herd. I hope to post more in the future…..
We did all we could. The new Secretary of Interiors sister is a cattle rancher. She won’t take any petitions. BLM are criminals…all of them.
that would be heartbreaking, having watched and photographed the families for so long.
It sounds like a cull to contain the numbers having no wild horses here in Ireland I don’t know but I have seen them do it here with deer in the local forest. Similarly I photograph them and then they disappear…culled.
If there was a conservation group that you could reach out to…I am new to the forum so maybe that’s a naïve idea.
As a horse owner I have seen many horses but none like these and I think people could learn so much from them…their hardiness, their feet how they live . It would be a shame to see how they live eradicated ….