Something a little different this week…hope you enjoy.

(The photo is of a wild stallion from the Piceance Creek/East Douglas HMA in Colorado).

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Two McCullough Peaks stallions duke it out while a mare continues to graze unfazed. She’s seen it all before. :)

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I just read on Facebook that the big band stallion Greasewood from Sand Wash Basin was euthanized on 1/10/12. I’d seen some disturbing images taken by Nancy who writes the Sand Wash Basin Wild Horses Blog and I wondered how he was ever going to recover from such an injury. I also read that The BLM took his body to the Vet for examination where a 15 inch piece of barbed wire was found twisted around his leg. Such a tragedy.

There is now an effort being made to gather folks for a clean up week at the HMA in hopes that something like this won’t happen to any of the other wild creatures in the Basin. At least there may be something good to come from the loss.

In memory, photos of Greasewood from August, 2011.

The family he leaves behind without a protector…

White Sage

Yarrow

Demi

Beauty and heart. You’ll be missed big guy.

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Lovely head and sweet face on this big Piceance Creek/East Douglas HMA mare. (Colorado – August, 2011)

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Cloud’s Echo (Echo – BLM name, Killian) and his sister Jewel taken 6/28/10 when he was a youngster.

More recent photos of Echo can be found on my “Pam Nickoles Photography” Facebook page at the link below:
Echo – Pryor Mountains, MT (9-2011)

From The Cloud Foundation:
“A very special alert from Ginger on writing your comments to the Pryors. Echo is a horse very near to her (and all of us). His genetics from his mother’s side combined with his unique color are something the Pryor herd cannot afford to lose. Not to mention his strength and spirit that is an echo of his grandfather, Cloud. No horses should be removed from the Pryors in 2012.”

Action Alert: Cloud’s Echo
(Be sure to watch the video on the “Cloud’s Echo” link above. It’s adorable beyond words).

All comments due by January 20th – more information and addresses can be found at the link below:
Comment Period for Pryors Extended

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