Update from Wild Horse Fire Brigade

There are many exciting projects underway this year at Wild Horse Fire Brigade, thanks to the generosity of our donors. We don’t like to talk about the cuisine until it’s served, and while some projects are still ‘in the oven’ so to speak, soon there will be some very exciting news! And we have a …

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65 Years Later, It’s Still the Gold Standard for Ethological Study! – ‘The Goodall Method’

‘Spirit’, a beautiful 3-yr.-old Appi boy, who is still with his family band, greets Calstate Univ. student Ciera (foreground). By: William E. Simpson II, Wild Horse Fire Brigade The first 2-week session of our summer Wilderness Wild Horse Ecology-Ethology Field Study course was completed by our Calstate students!  We’re currently putting together a short video …

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Report on Wild Horse Population Dynamics and Critique of BLM’s Appropriate Management Level

by William E. Simpson II We’ve been hard at work studying the ecology & ethology of our herd of 200 free-roaming, naturally living heritage horses and conducting research on their environmental benefits with our students from Cal State. And in the evenings, sometimes until 2:00 AM, we’ve been writing research papers to help provide additional …

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Wildfires Are Getting Worse, Not Better — WHY?

Wild Horse Fire Brigade’s empirically proven plan humanely and cost effectively manages American wild horses in a manner that is ecologically and economically more appropriate than is the case today. In fact, the plan can save American taxpayers over $1 billion annually! We are seeing more comments and donations from landowners and homeowners who live …

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Wild Horse Fire Brigade – Update

Photo: William E. Simpson II — Wild horses calmly graze in front of approaching 38,000-acre Klamathon Wildfire. The issue around wild horses is not a one-liner or a quick study for anyone. Innocent wild horses are literally dying at the hands of bad actors as you read this, so I ask that you excuse my …

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LA Fires: Can Saving Wild Horses Help Reduce Loss of Life and Economic Losses?

By: William E. Simpson II The devastating grass and brush fueled wildfires in Los Angeles we are all witnessing may be just a glimpse of the upcoming summer in the western United States, unless we start doing something new and cost-effective. Funding and doing more of what hasn’t worked is a guarantee for failure. And …

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Documentary Film Horse of Nature Officially Selected by Prestigious EQUUS Film & Arts Festival

YREKA, CA, UNITED STATES, September 7, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Based on a true story and actual events, Horse of Nature is set in the middle of the remote Cascade Siskiyou Mountains near the Oregon/California border, where the tiny town of 400 people called Henley Hornbrook exists. In 2018, a deadly wind driven wildfire tore through …

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Wild Horses and American Wilderness Deserve Ecologically Appropriate Management

YREKA, CALIFORNIA, USA, July 10, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Little Book Cliffs herd area in the state of Colorado is located to the north of the populated town of Palisade, and to the northeast of Clifton, Fruitvale, and Grand Junction Colorado. These towns are extremely vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire. Any large landscapes of managed wildfire …

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BLM Saving Wild Horses? Stopping Roundups with Fertility Control? Where’s the Truth?

As we’ve all recently witnessed, the increased tempo in roundups being planned and executed is shocking, including for the Little Book Cliffs wild horses, and is way past alarming. And some people are shamefully cashing in, including some so-called wild horse nonprofits who profit by selling the fake solution ‘fertility control’. As we all now …

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Stop Funding Failure That Is Killing Wild Horses – Fund Proven Success Instead

By William E. Simpson II, Wild Horse Fire Brigade Are wild horse advocates paying attention to the data and facts? Or just going along with ridiculous yet deadly trends? 9 years ago, I predicted the current situation in writing, in an article published by HorseTalk NZ. Some people argued back then that Fertility Control would …

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