Wild Horses of Dyer, Nevada by bentchick

Photography • Animals • posted on Mar 23, 2009

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This is the usual type of shot your likely to get when looking for wild horses. They are usually feeding well off of any highway or road. On my way home from Death Valley I spotted this small band in Dyer, NV. The stallion is the one on the left, his two mares and a new foal maybe a couple months old! I am always so excited to see the babies! This is when you really have to be careful, just like any mother, they can get pretty aggressive if you get too close. Here's an interesting story that I don't know what to do with, but it is interesting. Here's an excerpt: "Which brings me back to the story I heard at the Rock Shop. “When I was a teenager, up in Nevada,” the manager told me, ‘I saw some terrible things happen. Things would make you sick. “There was this rancher, see. Not far from Lovelock. This would have been back in 1970, I think. This rancher owned some good grazing land. Maybe two hundred acres or so. Now, you’re not supposed to slaughter wild horses in Nevada. It’s against the law. But this guy wanted to get rid of a certain small herd that he said was eating up his best hay and forage. So he applied to the State for special permission. “He had to give a good reason, other than his losing hay. So he said this herd was a degenerate strain, useless for anything except dog food. He claimed they might cross breed with other mustangs and bring down the quality of the herds. They were small and malformed, with strange looking hooves. This rancher’s explanation for their being degenerate was that they were half-starved and badly nourished. “That was a clear contradiction, you see. Those horses couldn’t be eating the guy’s best hay and be malnourished at the same time. But the State bought it. He got permission, went out there with two or three ranch hands, and shot every last horse in that herd. “Thing is, there were some other witnesses who saw those horses. Someone must have been paid off, because this was a major crime. You see, those horses were not malnourished or degenerate. They were native horses. That rancher killed the last remaining herd of native American horses. Now they’re gone, and there will never be another. It was a crime, and it made me sick.” - A Horse's Tale by Steve Bartholomew

Comments (18)

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RocksLady

7:47AM | Mon, 23 March 2009

Klasse Bild ...........Top:::::::::

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Flannelman

7:47AM | Mon, 23 March 2009

I remember this story in the news. Seems he hired outside sharpshooters to come in and fix the problem. There is always another option to killing them off. Good photo and sentiment. Long live wild. ;-)

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timtripp

7:53AM | Mon, 23 March 2009

beautiful

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Enmos

8:15AM | Mon, 23 March 2009

Beautiful capture !! :)

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MrsRatbag

8:47AM | Mon, 23 March 2009

Gorgeous creatures! Great shot

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Fidelity2

9:00AM | Mon, 23 March 2009

Very good. I love it.

MrsLubner

9:59AM | Mon, 23 March 2009

Stellar shot. I am heady at the mood it creates for me and the silver bunch grass is so fabulous! The story is a sad one. One of many I've heard over the years. Hopefully, we have gotten past the worst of our behavior towards the wild ponies.

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