The Wild Horse Conspiracy
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This stirring book fully justifies America's magnificent wild horses and burros while countering the biased machinations against them. Written by an ecologist who grew up observing these animals in the West, it presents new evidence concerning their history and evolution in North America then describes their many positive contributions to soils, plants, animals and people. Though true restorers of this continent's ecosystem, they have been unfairly targeted for elimination. Over the centuries, they have borne our burdens and helped us along life's way--which makes it doubly unfair that they should be blamed for what we humans have done. As always, they stand ready to help us do the hard work now so desperately needed to restore our shared home. Many of the author's personal experiences with these animals, their diverse herd areas, and the multicolored people involved with them are herein vividly shared. Urgently required now at the 40th anniversary of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act is a strategy to reverse the negative schemes that are causing their demise in the wild. As described, Reserve Design provides a way for establishing self-stabilizing populations through intelligent and caring programs executed with enthusiasm. Their lesson for humanity concerns how to share freedom and the land with such paragons of nature. Soaring beyond mundane pettiness and with an inspired vision for the future of all life, the elevated perspective and compassionate spirit of this book will prove key to accomplishing its critical goal. In the wild the vigor of any kind is preserved. And the entire horse family--as the Earth itself--needs America's wild horses and burros to continue at vital levels into the future here in their evolutionary cradle and worldwide.

Paperback: 328 pages

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 18, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1461068983

ISBN-13: 978-1461068983

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)

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If you want to learn the truth about the U.S. Government's mismanagement of our free-roaming wild horses and burros, it is unlikely that you could choose a more uniquely qualified mentor that Craig C. Downer or, for that matter, a more comprehensive and informative guide than his book, "The Wild Horse Conspiracy". Mr. Downer has, in fact, been intimately engaged in this issue since the earliest days of the movement that culminated in the 1971 Wild and Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act; he worked with the legendary Wild Horse Annie to bring that law to fruition. But there's a great deal more than near 45 years of unwavering commitment to this issue that qualifies the author. For one thing, he is a scientist, a Wildlife Ecologist, and is steeped in the science associated with key elements of this issue. Equally important I think, is his passion for the welfare of the animals, so much so, in fact, its fair to say his connection to horses and burros is a spiritual one. He recognizes and demonstrates, time and again, that these animals are more than insentient objects to be manipulated through a landscape driven by mankind's narrow economic interests (in this case, largely ranching, hunting, and mining interests). This clear understanding that higher-level mammals have intelligence, family structure, and needs that go well beyond the regressive notion that all they're interested in or capable of appreciating is a steady supply of feed, is at the core of the book, and it becomes increasingly clear that those who are charged with the management and legal enforcement of the 1971 law, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, have a much less enlightened and progressive understanding of their charges.

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