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  • A Kiger mustang stallion with one ear stands guard protecting the herd.
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  • Helicopter hovers over a herd of wild horses during a roundup on public land.
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  • A small herd of wild horses approaches with curiosity in the high desert West on public lands.
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  • Buffalo flies cover a herd of cattle in a pen.
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  • A girl with a herd of goats to be killed during a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A small band of wild horses trots to join a herd as they graze in the high desert of western public lands.
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  • Boys herd goats through the streets for tourists to see.
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  • A BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist checks her air rifle as she approaches a herd of wild horses to dart with PZP immunocontraception.
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  • Buffalo flies cover a herd of cattle.
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  • A herd of cattle in a pen.
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  • A rancher moves cattle with the help of a herding border collie.
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  • A farmer herds his cows off the steep hillside back to return to the barn for a morning milking. Some alpine farms attract young people who desire a simple and rustic lifestyle.
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  • Kiger mustangs graze peacefully on public land in southeast Oregon.
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  • A mare kicks up her heels after she is hit with a dart to control horse fertility by BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist.
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  • A wild stallion lowers his head and "snakes" to move his band through the high desert.
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  • A camel herder in the Kalacha Dida Oasis.
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  • Cattle have pulverized the drought-prone Omo region into dust.
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  • Turkana camel herders bring camels to water on Lake Turkana outside Elyse Springs.
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  • A mare kicks up her heels after she is hit with a dart to control horse fertility by BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist.
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  • A curious Kiger mustang band of wild horses noted for their intelligence and stamina.
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  • Wild horses graze while ducks swim by in a waterhole they share with other wildlife.
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  • Wild horses graze in a remote area of  high desert on western public lands.
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  • Cattle standing in a muddy pen.
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  • A full skeleton of a wild horse is played out in the high desert and was likely killed by a cougar. There are few predators besides mountain lions and man on herds in Steens Mountain.
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  • A cloud of dust rises as two helicopters guide 870 mustangs across the desert into a trap. They were rounded up from the Winnemucca Rangeland Area after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) determined that the number of wild horses there could not be supported on public land. Drought and wild fires created a dire situation for the horses, but advocates of mustangs believe horse herds are systematically being eliminated from western lands.<br />
Although there were as many as two million mustangs at the turn of the century, their numbers are much smaller and reduced regularly by these BLM gathers.
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  • Bureau of Land Management contractors drive wild horses galloping toward a trap using helicopters. Wyoming rangelands have "checkerboard" ownership of adjoining public and private land complicating management of wild horse herds. Ranchers won a lawsuit to have them rounded up and removed.
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  • Mustangs gallop in a tight pack as hired contractors herd large numbers of horses into a trap chasing them with helicopters. Nearly panicked, they are tricked to follow a tame “Judas” horse let loose in the confusion. The trained horse runs along the jute fence and into a corral expecting food and the wild horses that follow are captured.<br />
The Jackson Mountain Herd consists of mostly brown and dun colored horses. Most were dehydrated and hungry from drought conditions on Bureau of Land Management public lands in Nevada.
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  • A herd of colorful mustangs including Paints and Palominos graze through sagebrush as evening approaches. After stopping at the waterhole, they headed toward salt licks and to roll taking dust baths in Oregon's high desert.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • A herd of mustangs move across the grasslands as a summer storm builds over the high plains. It is believed that over two million wild horses roamed the largely unfenced American West in the 1900s.
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  • A rumble of thunder, crack of lightning, and winds blow dark clouds across the prairie alerting a mustang herd that a summer storm approaches. When the sky opened with torrents of rain, the nervous young wild horses bolted to outrun the storm.
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  • A wary foal stands with his mother near other mares in the herd as they graze together.<br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. However, they typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age and evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • A startled stallion senses danger for the wild horse herd in the Sand Wash Basin.
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  • Bachelor band of young stallions watch the protected herd in the Sand Wash Basin.
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  • From atop a distant hill, a rancher on horseback watches over his herd of sheep on Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon.
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  • A herd of donkeys transport water in the Una Ura Oasis.
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  • A rancher moves cattle with the help of a herding border collie.
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  • A Maasai tribesman herding goats.
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  • A Maasai family herding goats.
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  • A trainer herds camels for a morning judging.
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  • High desert where Ice Age Columbian mammoths, camels, lions, sloths and ancient horse herds roamed lush wetlands.
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  • A helicopter circles back to drive a herd of wild horses across the desert toward a trap in a roundup by the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada. Dust rises as the panicked horses flee the buzzing noise above them. Drought and wild land fire create stressful conditions with little water and food available for the herd.
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  • Two paint mustangs playfully bite while grazing at South Steens mountain in Oregon. The wild horses are friends and hang out with other bachelors in the herd.
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  • A bachelor band of horses group together for protection and company while grazing in the high desert of Steens Mountain in Oregon. Males in a herd form a family when they are young or old but have no mares.
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  • A Palomino mare follows a trail through the sagebrush with her newborn foal and other horses in their band. They grazed near a waterhole then moved to join the herd of wild mustangs that live in Oregon's high desert on public lands.
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  • Wild horses exhibit a "fight or flight" instinct typical of prey animals. As a noise startles the band, the horse on the right flees, the middle one quickly turns to follow while the mustang on the left looks back to see the threat and why the alarm was sounded for them to run to safety.<br />
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South Steens wild horse herd located south of Frenchglen in the high desert country with extremely rocky surfaces divided by deep canyons, rim rocks and plateaus.
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  • Separated from the herd, wild horses run to safety as Bureau of Land Management contractors bear down driving mustangs toward a trap using a helicopter for the roundup.
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  • Wild horse hooves kick up dirt as the herd  gallops through the dry Nevada desert. A camera was set on a remote as panicked mustangs ran into a trap during a Bureau of Land Management roundup.
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  • Horses flee from helicopters in a Bureau of Land Management mustang roundup. Bands stay together to protect the younger wild horses as the herd gallops full speed trying to run to safety.
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  • Panicked wild horses flee from a helicopter in a roundup. The Bureau of Land Management hires contractors annually to reduce herd numbers throughout the West.
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  • A young mustang foal romps to play in a meadow running circles around his mother while she grazes with other mares in the horse herd.
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  • Portrait of a wild horse in the snow-covered Ochoco National Forest in the Big Summit Wild Horse Territory in Oregon. The origins of the herd are not entirely clear according to the U.SD. Forest Service. Early accounts describe local ranchers in the 1920s turning loose quality animals from a good breeding stock to ensure a future supply of good horses. Recent genetic testing has linked the Ochoco Mustangs to Iberian and Andalusian stock, leaving much to be discovered about their true heritage.
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  • A sleek stud challenges a paint stallion as they clashed near a water hole in Oregon's high desert. Wild horses drink in order of hierarchy that is determined by their dominance. Their hooves thud when pounding each other in a fight within the herd.
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  • A herd of wild horses gallops across the dry Nevada range chased by a helicopter during a Bureau of Land Management roundup. Mustang herds are federally protected, but their numbers are regulated creating conflict. Darn browns and black are typical colors in wild horse herds.
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  • A farm worker drives his pickup truck into the field to herd cows to the barn for morning milking in the rural, northern Austria's Alpine region.
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  • A foal stands out in the herd as mustangs head down a dusty trail to a waterhole. Wild horse herds have a distinct social order and as with other animals that live in large groups, establishment of a stable hierarchical system reduces aggression. A lead or “alpha” mare guides the herd to food and water while stallions follow behind protecting their bands from predators and threats.
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  • Skeleton of a wild horse likely killed by a cougar in the high desert has teeth intact in the skull. The horse's natural enemies are predator animals: mountain lions, wolves and humans.
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  • A dominant stud shows aggression biting the mustang's neck while attempting to mate in Steen's Mountain.
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  • Cattle share land grazing with wild horses throughout the West.
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  • Bureau of Land Management contractors use a helicopter to push wild horses toward a trap during a roundup. Wyoming has "checkerboard" ownership of public land abutting private ownership. Ranchers won a lawsuit to have mustangs removed because they cross unfenced lines while grazing and searching for water.
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  • Dust settles as wild horses come to a halt, trapped after running from a helicopter during a Bureau of Land Management roundup. Drought and wild land fire created stressful conditions for the rugged, wily and skinny equine who barely survived eating twigs and dried up grasses.
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  • Wild horses kick up dust as they gallop through the dry Nevada desert. Horses survive on little living on barren public lands in the American West.
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  • Wild horses thunder across parched desert wilderness on public lands in Nevada. Dust kicks up as their hooves pound the scorched, barren rangelands. Mustangs are a mystic symbol of freedom, courage and the rugged, untamed American West.
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  • A playful bachelor band of young studs hang out in the Sand Wash Basin, 157,730 acres of public land.
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  • A playful bachelor band of young stallions are buddies.
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  • A BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist takes aim with an air riffle to dart mares with PZP.
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  • Armed with an air rifle, a BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist practices her aim on a target.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
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  • A wild horse struggles to find food in the snow packed Ochoco mountains. They are adept at pawing at ground under trees where drifts are not as deep.
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  • As night falls, a blur of galloping horses reveals a stud that is chasing a younger male from the band. When males come of age showing sexual maturity, they are driven from the family to find a mate. It is believed this is their natural way of warding off inbreeding. The younger horse must find other males to form a bachelor band or win a mare for his own.
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  • A band of wild horses roam the wide open spaces on Bureau of Land Management rangeland near Pilot Butte in western Wyoming.
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  • A band of wild horses follow single file to water as they roam the wide open spaces near Pilot Butte a unique formation that stands out in the high desert on public lands in western Wyoming.
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  • Golden light of early morning illuminates fog lifting around horses in a pasture at Wild Horse Sanctuary in Northern California.
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  • Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages baby horses from predators. They typically shed their fuzzy foal coat, however, and at three or four months of age evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • Wild horses graze at dusk as the moon rises over a ranch in land in South Dakota where mustangs and burros are protected.
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  • A wild mustang trudges through snow pawing at drifts foraging for grasses to survive on in the Ochoco Mountains.
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  • A playful bachelor band of young studs mock battle building up their fighting moves.
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  • A stallion chases a colt away from his band when a young male reaches sexual maturity.
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  • Wildebeest migration across the savannah.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan.
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  • An rancher moving his cattle to higher ground before heavy rains.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder. He is tame enough for trick riding and is a patient, obedient, old soul.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse, patiently waits under a guard dog's watchful eye as a sheepherder checks on the animals in his care.<br />
After the mustang was trained by prison inmates, the horse was sold at auction. He earned respect the first week on the ranch in the Wyoming range when he found his way back to the corral in a blizzard saving the life of his mount.
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  • A shepherd pours tea for other Yayla shepherds.
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  • An adopted former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and dogs.<br />
Dot, white mustang, was trained by prison inmates and then bought by rancher owners at a public auction. The docile horse earned his keep one week later when he saved the life of a shepherd who was lost in a blinding snow storm. The rider dropped the reins trusting the horse to find his way back home in spite of the blizzard.
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  • A former wild horse now works a Wyoming range with a sheepherder. Dot was trained by prison inmates and adopted for the ranch. The first week he arrived, a herder was lost in a blizzard and in danger of freezing. The rider dropped the reins and held onto the horses neck as the sure-footed mustang found his way home.
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  • A wild stallion attempts to escape but is roped by cowboys during a Bureau of Land Managment roundup. The wily wild horse whinnied to the other trapped horses, then tried to outrun his captures.
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  • A former wild horse, adopted and trained, now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and his dog. Owners find that mustangs are sure-footed on a trail and spook less than domesticated horses.
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  • Hiding behind a jute fence, a cowboy watches as a helicopter drives wild horses into a trap. A “Judas” horse that is trained to run into a corral dupes the frightened horses into following. A gate slams shut and they are captured in a Bureau of Land Management roundup.
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  • Young cowboys practice roping sheep.
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  • A Navajo woman lets her goats out to graze in Canyon De Chelly National Monument, a vast park in northeastern Arizona, on Navajo tribal lands. Its prominent features include Spider Rock spire, about 800-feet tall, and towering sandstone cliffs surrounding a verdant canyon. Inhabited by several Native American peoples for millennia, the area is dotted with prehistoric rock art.
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  • BLM contractors rope a young foal that was separated from his band after he was chased by two helicopters in a wild horse roundup.
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  • Helicopter chases a stallion that was captured but run out of the trap during a wild horse roundup.
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  • An rancher moving his cattle to higher ground before heavy rains.
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  • Masai tribesman with cow in the crater area.
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  • Herders make fences out of thorn acacias to discourage predators.
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  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle escape attack by government forces.
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  • A Baggara horseman takes a break to build a fire on his journey to the south.
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  • Two men look at two sacrificed sheep.
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