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Title
Family Time
Artist
Chris Lord
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
An image that was captured while spending four days among the Onaqui Mountain herd of wild mustangs in the Rush Valley near Dugway, Utah. These beautiful animals are the descendants of Pony Express horses who were turned loose after the Pony Express company lost its contract with the U.S Postal Service. This herd of 200 or so horses roams on 43,000 acres of federal land unfortunately in competition with sheep and cattle whose owners bribe the bosses of the government Bureau of Land Management (whose mandate is to look after the land for the horses) to keep the horses low in number. Horses have in the recent past been rounded up by helicopter, breaking up families and the natural hierarchy of the herd. The mustangs are then often sold off to Mexico to end up as dog food. While we were there one afternoon volunteers arrived to shoot contraceptive darts into the mares in order to keep numbers low and prevent the BLM from its cruel dastardly deeds.
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June 27th, 2022
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Maitland, FL - United States
Wonderful wild Mustangs portrait, Chris!
Chris Lord replied:
Thank you so much. I spent four days out there with the horses. It was wonderful! Cheers
Western, IL - United States
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
New York, NY - United States
Sending out a huge thank you to host NADER RANGIDAN for the FEATURE in the group "FINE ART EXPLORATION PHOTOGRAPHY"
New York, NY - United States
BIG thanks to host NINA PROMMER for the FEATURE in the group "ART - IT IS GOOD FOR YOU"
New York, NY - United States
My sincere thanks to host JUDY VINCENT for the FEATURE in the group "USA PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLY"
Plant City, FL - United States
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing in the aRt dIsTrict! ♥️ Your work has been showcased on the homepage of the aRt diStrIct! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive in the discussion thread. BRAVO!
Wayne, PA - United States
Beautiful shot, and thank you for the history!
Chris Lord replied:
There is a lot more about the damned BLM on the web if you Google them. There were once around five hundred horses on the range there. I once attended a protest against them in New York City. At one point a military helicopter flew over from a nearby airbase and the horses heard it before we did and stampeded away. We had to trudge back to the vehicles and go find them again. They were obviously terrified of helicopters and with good reason. Thanks Meg.
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