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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Wild horses"”.
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The Wild Diamond Diaries: Healing Alongside America's Wild Horses
… W.D. Through W.D., I first encountered these horses’ kind dispositions, composure, and hardiness. After my younger sister died in a riding accident with another horse, my parents rehomed W.D. The devastating loss of both my sister and horse sparked my lifelong interest in Mustangs’ lives in …
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Wild horses and the Bureau of Land Management: A policy review and critique
The 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act (PL 92-195) charged the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with the management and protection of wild horses and burros on public lands. The implementation of the Act was remiss in failing to recognize the limitation of expertise within the Bureau in carrying out its …
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Impact of Large Herbivore Use in Meadows on Lentic Function, Wetland Extent and Vegetation Hydric Status
Livestock and wild horses disproportionately favor riparian areas over uplands when seasonal temperatures are high or upland vegetation becomes dry, especially in flatter, more accessible terrain. Long-term trampling by excess or prolonged stocking can cause damage to riparian roots, reducing the …
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On the origin and spread of horse domestication
For several decades, the origin of domestic horses has been the focus of research across multiple disciplines, yet many aspects of the horse domestication process remain poorly understood. One of the reasons for the difficulty in establishing a coherent scenario of horse domestication is that …
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Gender and Conservation: A Comparative Study of the Bison and Wild Horse Conservation Movements
… focus of this thesis are the American bison and wild horse conservation movements. The goal is to address how these movements utilized and manipulated gender as a driving force for conservation. Throughout the nineteenth century, bison and bison hunting became identified with American manliness, …
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Science, animals, and profit-making in the American rodeo arena
… argues that the cultural redefinition of wild horses from 1950 to the present created new understandings of pain and animal welfare that played out in the rodeo arena’s dramatization of wildness against a backdrop of a growing horse crisis in contemporary America. Finally, an analysis of …
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Examining the Influence of Landscape on Natural Resource Management in the American West: A Geospatial Approach
… Chapter 4 examines optimal population control of wild horses in the American West across two spatial scales. Removal and fertility control scenarios were simulated and compared in terms of economic benefits and characteristics of the optimal population and management time-paths. The benefits of …