Wild Mustangs

Here in the Idaho high desert, there are so many beauties and marvels of creation. The wild mustangs that mingle with the ranch horses, are one of them. Some of the ranchers who depend upon the wide open range to run their cattle and horses on, are very protective of the rolling, mountainous desert, and especially the wild horse herds that run free there. When it looks like the herds are inbreeding and become unstable, the ranchers will release one of their best stallions to run with them. This increases the beauty and the strength of the mustang herds. Now that is a good thing, except with more folks living on the desert, there has to be an equilizer.... and that is often the roundup of the mustangs.... and they are tamed and put up for adoption under close supervision, to the public. We know folks who have adopted them, and they make the very best horses for families. Last week we visited the arenas where the adoptions were, and the horses. The BLM crew was there giving demonstrations on how to gentle the horses, and help in a lot of other ways. To make sure the mustangs are adopted to the best families, and there are about 5 families to each mustang, they have very rigid rules. One of the rules is, the horse remains under the protection of BLM for one full year before family can apply for full adoption. Here are a couple of my pictures of the "Roundup of the Wild Mustangs."