8. Wild Horse Holding Facilities

05/15/23 • 21 min

Over the course of my years spent chronicling America’s wild horses, I’ve also visited the holding facilities where the horses are taken after a roundup. I’m sad to say conditions have steadily and shockingly deteriorated. Today, I am sharing what I’ve seen.

Listen in to learn more about how the Bureau of Land Management is changing terminology and policies that continue to erode the protected status of these beautiful creatures, and how you can help this important cause of saving our nation’s wild horses.

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7. Wild Beauty: Interview with Ashley Avis

Ashley Avis is an American director, screenwriter, producer and co-founder of Winterstone Pictures. She embarked on what would become a five-year-long passion project in her award-winning documentary Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West, exploring the stunning natural beauty as well as the controversial government treatment of wild horses in the United States.

Join me in discovering Ashley’s winding road from horse lover to wild horse advocate. We discuss how an exploratory journey to the wild horse heartlands to film Black Beauty led her to filming her documentary, which became both an interesting look at wild horses and their families and a journalistic exposé on the corruption that's happening to them.

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9. AWHC WY Lawsuit: Interview with Suzanne Roy

I am absolutely delighted to have Suzanne Roy, the executive director of American Wild Horse Campaign, here to talk about the lawsuit that AWHC filed just a few days ago against the BLM. The government agency has plans for a massive land grab in Wyoming, as well as plans to zero out the wild herds living there and reduce another to a much smaller size.

Find out why this lawsuit could be one of the most important cases for the wild horses, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and all wild horse protected land in America, and how you can support this cause.

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