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I took these pics the weekend before last in a place called Spar Canyon, not far from my cabin. We counted roughly 50 or so overall, but I only had my iPhone with me, so there were only a few decent pics. Enjoy: These are wild Mustangs that roam about 10 minutes from my cabin.
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The last bit of daylight and phone camera really do not do the horses and scenery justice.
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Any idea how many are in the area?
That's pretty cool.
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Back in the day, ranchers would kick a bunch of horses out on the range, occasionally introducing a new stallion for better bloodlines. Whenever they needed new stock, they just rounded up what they needed, leaving the rest to breed. there is a bunch all over the desert west left over from days before auto's. It was a cheap way to raise replacement horses.
In Oregon there is a herd of Kiger mustangs left over over from the original Spanish bloodlines. I guess the indians hid them in a box canyon and they never bred with local ranch stock. Pretty neat to see, even if they are a bit of a pest.
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As far as I know, there are roughly 250 in the general area.
They generally keep their distance. I noted a couple of skeletons in the area, when my dad I and went for an evening jackrabbit safari.
Winters in this country are brutal. The wind is almost always blowing, and it gets COLD. A few years back during a December elk hunt, the radio station said the wind chill factor was minus 41 to minus 45 degrees.
Hard life for range ponies.
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Sometimes I come out to my car and there's 6-8 in my front yard. There's chit piles all over my neighborhood from wild horses.
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Going up that way this weekend, last time I tried that road it was so muddy I made it up the first slope and had to turn around. Seen some of the Mustangs to the north a little. Going to soak my old bones and listen to the river!
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These guys were just north of where you start up the first hill (Heading west, off of Hwy 93). The 2 track goes for miles back there. They usually hang in that general area. It has everything they need.
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Pretty good looking horses for wild Mustangs.
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Yep they are darn healthy.
The country is pretty rough, and I don't think the weak survive long, especially in winter.
There is a sign in the area that states something to the effect, that many of the horses originated from the late 1800s mining era.
When the mines played out, many horses were turned loose, and they have been roaming the high desert and mountains of the area for over 100 years.
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Destroying native wildlife habitat all over the West.
Should have a hunting season on them for proper management.
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Destroying native wildlife habitat all over the West.
Should have a hunting season on them for proper management. True that.....it's not the horses fault though....it's the BLM doing what gubment does best.....f*cking up everything they touch....
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Funny how people bitch about horses ruining habitat, but the same hunters insist on driving their ATV's all over the country side and think nothing of it.
Great pictures by the way. There is a group of wild horses that roam all over up here on Vermejo Park ranch. We used to see them as kids, they're very majestic animals.....
Thanks for sharing
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Funny how people bitch about horses ruining habitat, but the same hunters insist on driving their ATV's all over the country side and think nothing of it. You won't get any argument from me on that... As for the horses...I lived with em all my life in No. NV and unlike allot of folks there I didn't hate em....I just hated BLM's mismanagement and waste of money rounding then up in area's that they actually did some good and then holding them until they died of old age in pens that weren't any better than a puppy mill while letting their numbers grow until they depleted the grass and ruined every water hole for miles in another....
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it's the BLM doing what gubment does best.....f*cking up everything they touch.... [/quote]
To the tune of $77million per year for the care of mustangs. Not unusual to see 50-60 a day here driving for an hour on any highway. Rarely a lion will kill a colt, more are hit by vehicles, other than that they have no natural predation.
Wouldn't hurt my feelers if I never saw another.
Sorry for the thread derailment, MS. Great pics nonetheless.
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Remind me sometime to tell you about the time they spent god knows how much money rounding up a bunch of mares and sterilizing them....or another time when they tried controlling them with fencing just to find out they wouldn't follow a fence to where the open gate is like a cow will but instead about 200 of em stood there at the fence and died of thirst...
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