American Desert Horses P8654
This is a series of photographs that I took of a small band of American wild horses in the southwestern desert landscape. This picture shows one horse looking at me as two look for something to graze on. Horses around the world started in North America. Native to America, this iconic western symbol, is going extinct at the request of bad Americans. Through the use of the Bureau of Land Management, wild horses as young as hours old are brutally killed in the open or sent off to slaughter. All at the request of making the landscape available to the invasive cow, who in turn empties and pollutes the landscape and waterways. Over $60 million dollars is spent doing this every year. The wild equine act of 1976 was created to protect this key species, but ranchers and hunters would rather the ecosystem be destroyed by the cows and let the wildlife starve to death from a lack of food and water, and allow for wildfires to take over. The wild horses are a keystone native animal that needs to be better protected.