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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"wild horse"”.
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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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Men and Mustangs: From Communicative Messages Within the Wild Horse Inmate Program to a Communicative Theory of Learning How to Teach
… discover the communicative messages within the Wild Horse Inmate Program. This dissertation developed the communicative theory of learning how to teach, a grounded theory based on the communicative messages of the Department of Corrections' officers and Bureau of Land Manager employees who work …
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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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Pryor Mountain mustangs: on the range or on the bring?
At the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range straddling the Montana-Wyoming border, the fate of a herd of mustangs rests with the Bureau of Land Management and local horse conservationists. Nationally, the two sides are generally pitted against each other in the ugly world of horse politics. But in the …
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Pryor Mountain mustangs: on the range or on the bring?
At the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range straddling the Montana-Wyoming border, the fate of a herd of mustangs rests with the Bureau of Land Management and local horse conservationists. Nationally, the two sides are generally pitted against each other in the ugly world of horse politics. But in the …
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Government land management and the free market in southern Nevada
… in southern Nevada: the Mining Law of 1872; the Wilderness Act of 1964; the Endangered Species Act of 1973; and the Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971. These laws and BLM actions are examined with examples of how their implementation impedes the free market; The solution is privatization of the BLM …
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The Wild Diamond Diaries: Healing Alongside America's Wild Horses
… destructive, and untrainable. Yet my childhood horse—gifted to my family when I was three—was a gentled Mustang, 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 …
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Immunoreactivity of anti pZP antibodies from the serum of SpayVac vaccinated mares to equine zona protein
… (pZP) antigen is a well-published means of wild horse contraception. There are three pZP vaccines currently proposed for use in horses, Zonastat-H®, PZP-22, and SpayVac®. Despite abundant research concerning the safety and contraceptive efficacy of pZP vaccines in numerous species, the …
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THE ECOLOGY OF TICK-BORNE RELAPSING FEVER IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
… that <i>B. hermsii</i> was introduced to Wild Horse Island, Montana, on at least three occasions. Further, sequence data from the mt16S rDNA of <i>O. hermsi</i> suggested that these ticks can move between the mainland and islands on Flathead Lake. Taken together these data define the …
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THE ECOLOGY OF TICK-BORNE RELAPSING FEVER IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
… that <i>B. hermsii</i> was introduced to Wild Horse Island, Montana, on at least three occasions. Further, sequence data from the mt16S rDNA of <i>O. hermsi</i> suggested that these ticks can move between the mainland and islands on Flathead Lake. Taken together these data define the …