My intention is to create "visual reminders” to excite people enough to act to preserve our wild horses and burros and the terrain they inhabit along with many other wild species. The terrain is rapidly shrinking as it is being used for herds of grazing cattle to be sold for their meat thus leaving these wild animals to be moved away to harsh and unpleasant holding facilities. A serious challenge to removing and killing wild horses and burros began in the 1950s by Velma Bronn Johnston or “Wild Horse Annie”. The legislation Johnston worked tirelessly to get passed was finally called the Wild Horse Annie Act, 1971. Together we can uphold her legacy as well as preserve the special places that wild horses and burros live and thrive in!
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To learn more about this and be an active supporter of correcting the very real problems working against the successful maintenance of wild life in our western states, please visit the site of Laura Leigh, President and Founder of Wild Horse Education.
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We have a role to play! Check this out: The Reality of Horse Round-ups. We can communicate to state representatives in DC and insist that they uphold bills that end slaughter, and the transport to slaughter and pass new bills to stop enslaving remaining horses and burros in stockyards! The roundups brutally injure young animals chased by powerful and frightening vehicles, destroy wild family bonds, and place wild animals in pens with little or no shelter in sweltering temperatures (illegal). The transport puts stallions together and in their frenzy to escape they are often severely harmed. We need to respect the natural existence of all flora and fauna in the plains and wilderness areas, which in turn supports the balance of all life. We must continue fighting for new laws that stop helicopter roundups and slaughter going on regularly and learn why this is happening.

Louise Michaels
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