Comments on: Wild Horses in Winds of Change Film

By: Doris Conkey

Doris Conkey — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:49:42 +0000

My husband and I viewed the DVD that I checked out at the library where I work. We were so impressed and understand that there is a ranch in Tuscon Az where we will be visiting the first week in September of this year. If possible we would like to visit the ranch with our daugther and her family. Can you give me some info on this?
Thanks,
Doris Conkey
8187 Bowers Rd SW
Amanda, Ohio 43102-9567
tdconkey@frontier.com

By: Name Ellen Maggs

Name Ellen Maggs — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:59:54 +0000

Just saw your film today. So touching. Would love to be involved. Ellen Maggs

By: Mara LeGrand: Filmmaker

Mara LeGrand: Filmmaker — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:46:18 +0000

Hi Jane, I have attended a couple of Backcountry Horsemen meetings and I hope some of your members can make it to the screening. Every range is not equal in size, resources or politics so each range and herd requires different solutions. Mare fertility via darting does seem to work well in smaller herd areas, like The Little Bookcliffs. I understand T.J. Holmes is working toward making that available to the Spring Creek herd. Solutions need to be continually explored and implemented for a reproductive animal, so even if all the land designated for the horses, in 1971 was restored to the herds, and even if no special interest groups vied for the resources of the land the horses would eventually multiply to numbers too great for land and water to support. Sometimes when we don’t happen to have the solutions figured out, we think there are none. I believe we have to implement steps that change the current “un-management” of the herds that has led to a brutal and hopeless end for most of these beautiful and harmless creatures. I made this film to call upon people to join in the discovery of new ways of seeing the wild horses in relation to all of nature. We begin by examining our attitudes, getting involved, implementing new policies and practices that instead of pandering their habitat restores and expands it. As we instigate short term changes we also develop a long term plan for sustainability. The impact of 8 million privately owned cattle on the range does the most damage to all resources – but the cattle-men spin propaganda that blames the horses. They have also rid the land of natural predators furthering to imbalance a natural eco-system. Jonathan Ratner of Western Watersheds will present authenticated and current facts about what’s the real problem behind the wild horse issue. Sorry you can’t come to this screening event – there’s likely to be another opportunity. Best to you, Thanks for caring. – Mara

By: Name Jane Robinson

Name Jane Robinson — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:13:34 +0000

Mara, I will not be in Durango next month, and would like to know what your film supports as to a solution to the wild horse population increase problem. Dealing with the mares’ fertility is not working very well yet, and the horses keep having babies. What do you think can be done? I am the secretary of the Durango chapter of Backcountry Horsemen and we as a group are extremely interested in the Spring Creek herd.

Thank you for your input on this difficult question. I hope I hear from you.
Sincerely, Jane Robinson

By: Name Michael John mccann

Name Michael John mccann — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:18:44 +0000

Great work. You may save them in the end.Best always.

Michael john McCann

By: Name John A Lane

Name John A Lane — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:33:21 +0000

Just watched the Wild Horses in Wind of Change and was appalled at the actions of the BLM. We need to get the government to change the rules here and abide by them also stop these self interest groups screwing up the planet.
The narrator got it right horses adapt to the environment, humans make the environment adapt to them, and this will be to our detriment for sure.

By: Belle Balibrera

Belle Balibrera — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:56:24 +0000

Wow, what a statement….elegant and disturbing at the same time. A potent combination.

Thank you so much for making this film, Mara LeGrand. May your heartfelt efforts pay off and make a change for our four-legged brothers and sisters.

Sincerely,
Belle Balibrera

By: Leslie Kuretzky

Leslie Kuretzky — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:47:42 +0000

This is amazing.

By: Name christine peniaranda

Name christine peniaranda — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:45:51 +0000

i don’t know how to negotiate to stop the roundups, exept expose their cruelty and violations of the 1971 federal law that protects them and demand they be held responsible, brought up on charges of the docuemented cruelty and punished, so as to detter any more roundups. put pressure on them. denounce the parties by name who are involved. go to our leaders for help. hound the blm, the mustangers , all the shady participants and above all PRAY!!! also condider humane relocation to sanctuaries and careful adoptions. expose the individual cattle companies that are participating and the kill buyers.

By: ana morris

ana morris — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:40:38 +0000

AWESOME!!!!! Really!