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  • Wild horses create a cloud of dust as they gallop making trails across dry, sagebrush-covered public lands. Trails mark paths the horses follow in their trek through the barren desert of the Bureau of Land Management's Jackson Mountains searching for water and food.<br />
Nearly half the wild horses in the U.S. live in Nevada where they compete for food, water and territory with cattle, other wildlife, and oil gas and mineral exploration. Drought and wild land fire place greater pressures on the scrappy herd that survives on little to nothing in the Winnemucca rangeland.
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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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  • 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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  • A patient cowboy trainer works with his mustang to for the Extreme Mustang Makeover competition. The two-year old Nevada horse had never been handled and within thirty days he was trained and ready to show off their abilities.
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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 captured wild horse eyes his surroundings after loaded onto a trailer following a roundup by the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • Foals hover in a corner of the pen, separated from mares and stallions following the round up by the Bureau of Land Management. Mothers nearby call out trying to find their young ones that are frightened and huddle together for safety.
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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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  • 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 horse trainer on a wild mustang gallops full tilt across the Nevada desert leaving a cloud of dust. He had thirty days to train a wild horse for a competition in the first Extreme Mustang Makeover established to show off abilities of adopted wild horses.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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