Roaming in a Herd of Wild Horses near Laramie Wyoming
On this Airstream Life vLog, we go on one of our favorite adventures to date. We take a 2-hour tour at the Deerwood Ranch Wild Horse EcoSanctuary where we go out in an ATV and get to learn about the history of the ranch and then roam among their herd of 350 wild horses. This ranch works with the BLM to feed the horses and helps get them off the public lands. It is amazing to be able to go among the horses and be part of the herd. Some of them are super curious and even come up to sniff you and the ATV. Between the horses, the wildflowers and the mountains it was an absolutely gorgeous morning and we would recommend it to anyone!
After being awed in the morning we headed into Laramie for lunch at a brewery. We walked around downtown to see the cool mural project and finally ended up at the University of Wyoming to see their T-Rex statue. Wish we could spend more time in Laramie but we have to move on!
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Towards a Better Understanding of the Socio-ecological Complexities of Feral Horses in the U.S.
Derek Scasta, Rangeland Extension Specialist, Assistant Professor of Rangeland Management, Plant - Herbivore Interactions Ecologist, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.
Today, more than 72,000 feral horses and burros live on western U.S. public rangelands and are protected under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. The number of horses and burros exceeds the Bureau of Land Management’s maximum Appropriate Management Level (AML) of 26,715 by a factor of approximately 2.7 and has nearly doubled from 2007–2015. The AML was set to balance horse and burro numbers with rangeland health and support other uses such as wildlife habitat and livestock grazing. Thus, public land management agencies must manage horses and burros under the multiple-use context. This becomes more problematic when populations go largely unmanaged and excessive equid grazing negatively impacts rangeland vegetation, native wildlife, and livestock forage. In addition, approximately 46,000 horses and burros exist in off-range holding facilities, further straining federal budgets, and tens of thousands more horses occur on tribal lands. Feral horses also occur in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand where they are as equally controversial. It is necessary to understand that the coevolution of human society and horse domestication was transformative due to the intimate relationship between horse and human and consequently, contemporary management actions are being constrained by: (1) litigation, (2) public emotional concerns that lack reconciliation with the current situation, and (3) increasing complexity in the laws and subsequent amendments shaping horse and burro management policy. Collectively, these factors impede the implementation of concrete solutions to manage for healthy horses and health rangelands upon which they depend. Consequently, stakeholders are increasing polarized over how horses are or should be managed. While the ecological and animal health and welfare implications of unmanaged horse and burros
populations are somewhat understood, publicly acceptable strategies to maintain healthy populations, healthy and functioning rangelands, and multiple uses that sustain wildlife and local communities remain unresolved.
Dr. John Derek Scasta holds a BS degree from Texas A&M University in Rangeland Ecology and Management, a MS degree from Texas Tech University in Crop Science, and a PhD degree from Oklahoma State University in Natural Resource Management. For the past 14 years, he has worked throughout the Great Plains and Front Range region with private, state, and federal partners on a wide variety of natural resource related issues including wildfire, feral horses, livestock-wildlife conflicts, drought, and education. In 2018, Dr. Scasta also traveled to Australia and New Zealand to gain a broader perspective about feral horses.