October 30, 2007

• "Wild Horses-An American Romance", is a production of the Nebraska ETV Network in partnership with South Dakota Public Television. Also equipped with its own promotional website that reads like a BLM textbook with such claims as "in recent years, thousands of wild horses have died on federal ranges of starvation and thirst" and listing Slaughter as the top option in their "Solutions" section. A whole host of inaccurate and unresearched facts and statistics are included as well with claims that BLM tries to keep the wild horse population under 40,000 (accurate number is 24,500 and falling), that cattle, big game and wild horses are in a "thriving ecological balance", that BLM does intense monitoring of rangeland resources to determine if wild horses or burros need to be removed, and helicopter captures are conducted under strict, humane procedures. The website touts itself as educational with special emphasis for teachers and students and includes links to BLM "approved" organizations. http://net.unl.edu/artsFeat/wildhorses/wh_dilemma/wh_dilemma_intro.html
• Kiger Mustangs, one of the most prized wild horses in America due to their strong Spanish Mustang ancestry, will be available for adoption November 8-10, at the Wild Horse Corral in the Harney County Fairgrounds in Burns, OR. http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/1193621110206150.xml&coll=7