This is a non-commercial, independent website, owned and written by Nancy Kerson, for the benefit of actual and potential adopters of BLM Mustangs and Burros and similar animals.
DVD or VHS (2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction!
$39.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $44.95 total
Lesley Neuman: The First Touch Gentling Your Mustang $45.00
Lesley works with 3 wild horses at a BLM adoption, and very clearly explains what is happening, what she is doing, & what she sees in each horse as it progresses. Study this video and you can learn "pressure and release" gentling techniques to gentle your own new mustang!
Help for Burro adopters! Crystal Ward Donkey Training
All the basics of gentling, handling, and training. A MUST for new burro adopters! Good for domestic donkeys, too!
Spotting Wild Horses & Burros in the Wild is a Thrilling Experience! Click here for Nevada BLM'S "MUSTANG COUNTRY" booklet - it's chock full of info for mustang buffs wanting to visit Northern Nevada wild horse country, including local history, visitor tips, maps and camping info.
ECO-TOURISM and WILD HORSE & BURROS: DO WE NEED WILD HORSE PARKS?
As a Mustang website owner, I get emails all the time from people asking “where can I see wild horses?” These people often know about the various private sanctuaries that offer tours, but they want to see “real” wild horses on the real American range – in Nevada, eastern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and California. I run into people all the time who are so thrilled to tell me (since they know I am into wild horses and burros) that they saw or heard real wild burros on their last camping trip to wherever.
People are excited about the prospect of sighting a fleeting band of real wild horses or burros in their natural, historic habitat. They aren’t looking for a park, museum or zoo.
There may be a place for a wild horse park in the Big Picture for wild horse and burro tourism, but no one should underestimate the wild horse & burro-inspired tourism that is ongoing right now, and could be further developed, throughout all of wild horse and burro country, for the economic benefit of a wide range of counties and cities.
Rather than putting huge amounts of money into a handful of parks, I would rather see smaller development grants offered to businesses and communities in wild horse and burro country, to develop their own tourist opportunities centered on wild horse and burro viewing. A little could go a long way and would improve relationships between local citizenry to their local wild horses and burros. A case in point is the Burning Man event that takes place on the Black Rock Desert over Labor Day week each year. I cannot imagine two less naturally compatible populations than the Burning Man crews and local ranchers, and yet, once the locals began to see the economic benefits, they began to accept the blue-haired, tattooed invasion each fall.
I would prefer that we not place official value judgment (through "Wild Horse National Parks") on the relative “treasure-factor” of the many wild horse and burro herds throughout the American West.
CARTER RESERVOIR HMA, outside Cedarville, CA
Roxanne & Elvon Talltree went wild horse watching for their honeymoon!
They toured several of the smaller, lesser-known wild horse areas of Northern California, including Carter Reservoir, Red Rock Lake, and McGavin Peaks.
All of these photos are courtesy of Roxanne Talltree:
Carter Reservoir herd
Carter Reservoir
Carter Reservoir
Carter Reservoir
The Carter Reservoir herd tests very "Old Spanish" and their body type and colors - dun, palomino, overo pinto, etc. are very consistent with this ancestry.
Carter Reservoir
Carter Reservoir - you can see Cedarville, CA in the distance
Red Rock Lake
Red Rock Lake
Red Rock Lake
Red Rock Lake
PINE NUT HMA, outside Minden/Gardnerville, NV
Kathy Port is a photographer who likes o go out into the Nevada desert areas to observe wild horses and other wildlife. She sent me these great pictures of the Pine Nut range near Gardnerville, Nevada:
We saw this wild herd on the road between Soldier Meadows and Summit Lake - it is either in Black Rock, Warm Springs Canyon, or Calico Mountains - really not sure which. Here's a band of Calico Mountains horses leaving McCarty Springs on the West slope of the range.
Comstock horses (Virginia Range) are probably the easiest wild horses for the tourist to access. They live in the areas surrounding Reno, Carson City, along US 50 out of Carson City, and, of course, VIrginia City. They are frequently seen along roadsides (where they are at risk for being hit by cars!) and residential areas (where they are also at risk for being reported as nuisance horses).
Here are some excellent links with photos and stories by Willis Lamm, who lives in Wild Horse Country:
HWY 50 - Central Nevada: Photo by Kathleen & Robert Hayden
Photo by Kathleen & Robert Hayden
Can you find the wild horses? Photo by Kathleen & Robert Hayden
These photos became detached from the email that sent them to me, so I am not sure of thier origin. A person write me to tell me that these are most likely wildlife biologist and wild horse advocate, Craig Downer's beautiful photos of the Calico horses before the 2010 gather.
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Disclaimer: Horses are inherently dangerous. Use the information contained within this website at your own risk.
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