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  • A young fisherman casts his line into the Pacific surf on a black sand beach that draws no swimmers because of its undercurrent.  Three generations of this family has been fishing at the Lost Coast every summer for more than 70 years. The remote coast is named California's King Range National Conservation Area (NCA).
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  • A young fisherman casts his line into the Pacific surf on a black sand beach that draws no swimmers because of its undercurrent.  Three generations of this family has been fishing at the Lost Coast every summer for more than 70 years. The remote coastline is named California's King Range National Conservation Area (NCA).
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  • Musicians play instruments in the Pacific Ocean surf.
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  • Clear Pacific Ocean waters meeting a mountainous coastline.
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  • A view through silhouetted evergreen trees at gentle Pacific surf.
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  • A view through silhouetted evergreen trees of the Pacific ocean.
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  • Aerial view illuminates light fog lifting above the waves on the coast of California's King Range National Conservation Area (NCA).<br />
The area encompasses 68,000 acres along 35 miles of landscape too rugged for highway building, giving the remote region the title of California’s Lost Coast. It is the Nation's first NCA, designated in 1970.
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  • Aerial view illuminates eroded slopes above the waves on the coast of California's King Range National Conservation Area (NCA).<br />
The area encompasses 68,000 acres along 35 miles of landscape too rugged for highway building, giving the remote region the title of California’s Lost Coast. It is the Nation's first NCA, designated in 1970.
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  • Gulls forage along the coast in Olympic National Park.
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  • A girl stands in a gazebo on the Mendocino coast at twilight.
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  • Denis and Gail Boyer Hayes paddle a canoe on Lake Washington, near Seattle.  De nis was one of the organizers of the first Earth Day 25 years ago. Today he run s the Bullitt Foundation, which funds environmental groups in the Pacific North west.
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  • Clouds fill depressions through the mountainous area of Northern California after a passing storm.
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  • Braving wild waters of the Rogue River and tasting triumph over the rapids, rafters join some 100,000 other day trippers who paddle, float, or kayak the river each year. Nightfall brings tranquility; only a few lucky winners of BLM’s annual lottery can continue into the Wild and Scenic portion s it rushes toward the Pacific Ocean near Gold Beach, Oregon.
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  • A sea of orange boats float on the placid waters of the Rogue River. Rafters join some 100,000 other day trippers who paddle, float, or kayak the river each year. <br />
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Nightfall brings tranquility; only a few lucky winners of BLN's annual lottery can continue into the Wild and Scenic portion s it rushes toward the Pacific Ocean near Gold Beach, Oregon.
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  • Graffiti carved in a wooden bench in Mendocino Headlands State Park.
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  • A dog runs full tilt along the coast, free and unleashed on an Oregon Beach. Storm clouds clear over Three Arch Rocks in Oceanside.
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  • Aerial view of Pilot Rock at twilight. The iconic rock face is a plug of volcanic basalt that juts 400 feet above Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument in a crossroads of mountain ranges, geological eras and habitats. The 65,000-acre monument is at the junction of the Oregon and Cascades and Siskiyou Mountains with Mt. Shasta on the left rising in the far distance across the state line in California.
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  • Tidal pool and sea stacks in fog on Shi Shi Beach at low tide.
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  • Sea stacks at twilight on Shi Shi Beach at low tide.
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  • Tree-topped sea stacks at twilight on Shi Shi Beach.
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  • An aerial view of Washington's coastline with sea stacks.
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  • An aerial view of Washington's coastline with sea stacks.
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  • Sea stacks and starfish in fog at Shi Shi Beach.
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  • Champion endurance racer Lari Shea, right, leads friends along Ten Mile Beach.
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  • A silhouetted child runs on a rock studded beach at sunset.
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  • Sea stacks at twilight on Shi Shi Beach at low tide.
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  • Fog shrouded sea stacks and surf on Shi Shi Beach.
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  • Silhouetted sea stacks in surf along Shi Shi Beach.
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  • Aerial view of foggy Washington coastline with sea stacks.
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  • Horseback riders and a collie on the rock strewn beach .
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  • Mount Olympus and its sister peaks.
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  • Twilight view of silhouetted evergreens with Olympic mountains.
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  • Twilight view of snow-capped Olympic mountains and foothills below.
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  • Twilight view of snow-capped Olympic mountains.
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  • Twilight view of Olympic mountains and evergreens in snowy landscape.
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  • Mount Olympus and other snow-capped peaks in the Olympic mountains.
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  • Sea stacks tower above the surf at Shi Shi Beach.
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  • Columbian blacktail deer in fog near Hurricane Ridge.
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  • The Window on the World amusement park in Shenzhen allows Chinese to travel the world in an afternoon. Behind “Mount Rushmore” in this photo are actors playing Africans in huts and Egyptians at the Great Pyramids of Giza. Historically, during Mao, Chinese have not been able to travel. But for now they have to look at the “Eiffel Tower” and “Mount Rushmore” at Window on the World. Because of China’s one-child policy, instituted in 1978, this is the first generation in the world’s history in which a majority are single children, a group whose solipsistic tendencies have been further encouraged by a growing obsession with consumerism, the Internet, and video games. At the same time, today’s young Chinese are better educated and more worldly than their predecessors. Whereas the so-called Lost Generation that grew up in the Cultural Revolution often struggled to finish high school, today around a quarter of Chinese in their 20s have attended college. The country’s opening to the West has allowed many more of its citizens to satisfy their curiosity about the world: some 37 million will travel overseas in 2007. In the next decade, there will be more Chinese tourists traveling the globe than the combined total of those originating in the U.S. and Europe.
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  • A young wild horse advocate stopped a US Representative in the wall way to lobby against horse slaughter bills.
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  • A young wild horse advocate waits in a congressional office in Washington, DC to lobby against horse slaughter bills and support humane treatment of horses.
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  • A young wild horse advocate and his mother sat in a congressional office in Washington, DC to lobby against horse slaughter bills.
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  • Steens Loop Road passes through winter sun that warms grasses on the high desert in Oregon's Steens Mountain.
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  • A rancher on horseback accompanied by his dog drives a herd a sheep through the open range and grasses of the high desert in Oregon's Steens Mountain.
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  • Land yachts race the wind and each other across the Alvord Desert playa’s flat, dusty terrain. Fans of the sport flock to the ancient lake bed in search of speeds beyond most posted interstate highway limits. The world record stands above 116 mph. Sports enthusiasts race in high temperatures when the playa is dry enough to drive on.<br />
The desert lies to the east of Oregon's Steens Mountain, and Steen's Mountain Wilderness which is “the largest fault-block mountain in the northern Great Basin.”  It abruptly falls to the dry Alvord Desert 6,000 feet below.
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  • A  cinder cone in Diamond Craters, a monogenetic volcanic field southeast of Burns, Oregon. Basaltic lava flows were formed in the past 25,000 years and resemble a flat rocky area with small hills. The craters and vents, cinder cones and spatter cones, lava tubes are near Steen's Mountain Wilderness in the northern Great Basin.”
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  • Blazing sunset leaves in shadow the famous gap in Kiger Gorge, atop Oregon's Steens Mountain. Steen's Mountain Wilderness is “the largest fault-block mountain in the northern Great Basin.”  The aerial view shows a forty mile long escarpment in southeastern Oregon has a notch cut out of the top and drops abruptly to the dry Alvord Desert, 5,500 feet below.<br />
Bulldozing down to basalt, Ice Age glaciers carved our huge gorges out of the Great Basin's largest fault block mountain. Beyond, Steens's east face plummets a vertical mile.
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  • Full moon rises over a pastoral waters of the Rogue River, a Wild and Scenic River in western Oregon.  Some 100,000 day trippers paddle, float, or kayak the river each year but nightfall brings a dreamy world of pastels, peacefulness and tranquility.
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  • A boy takes his cow to 4H competition at the Humboldt County Fair.
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  • A Chinese Acrobat warms up backstage at the Los Angeles County Fair.
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  • On the Midway at the Los Angeles County Fair.
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  • A boy uses milk to coax his pet lamb and calf into a waiting truck; the animals are being taken to a nearby fair competition.
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  • A boy uses milk to coax his pet lamb and calf into a waiting truck; the animals are being taken to a nearby fair competition.
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  • Father and son in the farm pickup truck (one of two images taken years apart).
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  • A Kiger mustang stallion with one ear stands guard protecting the herd.
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  • A Kiger mustang stallion watches guard of the herd. Kiger mustangs possess a demeanor and coloration of the original Spanish mustang.
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  • A curious Kiger mustang band of wild horses noted for their intelligence and stamina.
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  • Cattle share land grazing with wild horses throughout the West.
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  • Kiger mustangs graze peacefully on public land in southeast Oregon.
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  • A yearling mustang watching the wild herd move down a ridge top to a watering hole.
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  • Evening on the ranch, a young cowboy stands under a full moon with his trained former mustang, Paiute. Decked out with a black hat, a sheriff's badge and red cape, Tanner follows in the footsteps of his mother who trains wild horses and learned the talents of her grandfather.
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  • Kitty gentles and trains wild horses on her ranch in the high desert where the wild mustang trainer rides rides on trails with her children.
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  • Black hat and red bandana match the checkered shirt as this young, wide-eyed cowboy sheriff fantasizes on their western ranch.
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  • A young cowboy sheriff with a badge, black hat, red flannel shirt and belt buckle steadies his hand on his weapon ready for action in his living room on the ranch.
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  • A young cowboy plays dead on the living room floor in a dramatic western fantasy involving knives and guns and a stuffed horse ready for a quick get-away.
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  • A young, western cowgirl walks to the barn with her trusty steed on wheels to watch her mother train wild horses.
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  • Donning a straw hat, a young cowgirl heads to the barn to watch the horses.
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  • Kitty learned to train horses from her grandfather and now, she works with mustangs and difficult horses on her western ranch. Her daughter rides one of the many wild horses she has tamed and trained.
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  • A young cowgirl sits atop a tall, tamed and trained, former mustang at the family ranch.
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  • Wild horses wade in a waterhole to drink and cool off on a summer evening in the Wild Horse Sanctuary.
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  • A photographer sets a camera trap at a water hole so a laser beam will trip the shutter to photograph wild horses.
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  • A photographer holds a cracked housing for remote cameras used to photograph wild horses stampeding.
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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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  • 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 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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  • A trainer rides down a steep embankment trusting his sure-footed mustang. Many adopters of wild horses say they are calm and confident when riding on a trail.
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  • A trainer uses a rope as she works with a wild mustang on trusting to be touched. She learned gentling methods from her cowboy grandfather and patiently earns their confidence. She was a champion cowgirl going up and competing in rodeos.
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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 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 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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  • Two curious burros watch mustangs drink at a waterhole they share. Burro is the Spanish name for a wild donkey. They have longer ears than horses and engaging personalities liking humans. <br />
The Bureau of Land Management created the Wild Horse and Burro Program to implement the Wild-Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act, passed by Congress in 1971. Broadly, the law declares wild horses and burros to be "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West" and stipulates that the BLM and the U.S. Forest Service have the responsibility to manage and protect herds in their respective jurisdictions within areas where wild horses and burros were found roaming in 1971.
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  • Two young studs playfully spar as they gain confidence and moves that will help them challenge older stallions for hierarchy in the herd. They bite and kick, running in circles and kicking up dust around the other horses.
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  • With a burst of speed, a white mustang stallion charges at another wild horse.
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  • Two albino stallions walk through flowering shrubs and grasses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary. Until captured and removed, they were part of the cultural landscape of the Channel Islands since the mid 19th century. They are first recorded as having been introduced to Santa Cruz Island in 1830.
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  • A stallion nips at at another stud as they fight for dominance in a wild horse herd. Dust rises as the pair clash in the dry summer months in the West.
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  • A young foal rests in a bed of chamomile flowers creating an idyllic scene as he watches the herd graze. Newborn horses sleep up to twelve hours during the day, but graduate to adults that sleep only three hours -- and often standing.
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  • Head lowered and ears laid back in an aggressive posture, a stallion is "herding" or "snaking" or to control his mare and foal. The white mustang is also sending a warning to others. Wild stallions protect their families and this behavior is in reaction to a threat to his band.
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  • A white mustang stallion challenges another stud as the herd adjusts to the new dynamic of status as horses introduced.
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  • A wild horse takes a dust bath by rolling  in the dirt.  It may be a sign he is happy or it may be to self-clean his coat by eliminating extra oils and to discourage insects.<br />
The more dominant horses will have a favourite rolling spot and will be the last to roll in it. This means that their scent is the strongest and therefore their rank is higher within the herd.
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  • Two foals watch studs fight, learning the behavior they will imitate when they are older. Young wild horses make friends and bond within a horse herd.
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  • Two mustangs groom each other, a common social behavior among wild horses. The mutual grooming brings heads together and reaffirms bonding between horses, reducing social tension within a herd.
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  • A charismatic mustang stallion looks like a white horse on a merry-go-round as he arches his neck and proudly walks through a flowering meadow in the Wild Horse Sanctuary. Phantom was well-known in the wild, and after capture, his fans raised money to find him a safe home with his band.
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  • Wild horses stand opposite ways to flick flies off each others faces with their tails.
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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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  • A dominant stud shows aggression biting the mustang's neck while attempting to mate in Steen's Mountain.
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  • Snow blows across an icy, wintery back road in Steens Mountain as harsh weather comes to Oregon's high desert.
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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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  • Phantom, a charismatic white mustang, fights a roan stallion at the Wild Horse Sanctuary. He was captured by the U.S. Forest Service and rescued by loyal fans who raised money to save him. Once released with other horses, he was tested for hierarchy in the herd.
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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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  • A wild mustang trudges through snow pawing at drifts foraging for grasses to survive on in the Ochoco Mountains.
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