Roundup Wreck

The Roundup of the Sand Wash Basin Herd in Colorado, and the horrible wreck involving a young wild mare who goes over backwards and is trampled while being forced into a trailer. www.wildhoofbeats.com
This roundup occured because the Humane Society of the United States was funding a study on the use of birth control on wild horses. The contractor who was rounding up the wild horses for the Bureau of Land Management is Cook, and I have observed 1 other round up that they conducted where their treatment of the horses was cruel and inhumane. In this case, they were driving terrified horses with a helicopter into small pens, not even giving them time to settle down, then driving far too many horses through a very narrow opening into a horse trailer. These wrecks occured the day after "media day" when the press was allowed to observe. I contacted then Deputy Director of the BLM, Henry Bisson about this - the answer from his office was "Sometimes accidents happen, and sometimes horses are killed. Fortunately, in this case no horses were killed or seriously injured." As a matter of fact, that mare did survive and have a foal a few months later, but 5 horses died in that round up. I also went to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting and presented the photos and was met with no response. Just 2 years before I was at a meeting of that same Advisory board with horrible photos of yet another Cook roundup and they promised to look into it. Nothing has been done. The contractor Cook is still one of the two main contractors used by the BLM to round up wild horses and preventable accidents continue to happen.
Carol Walker is an equine and wildlife photographer living in Colorado. She is the author of Wild Hoofbeats: America's Vanishing Wild Horses available at www.wildhoofbeats. Music by Bjorn Lynne.

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[guitargirlcc]

If u want to help stop these round ups message meh at cele_calvillo@yahoo.com. Plz help me stop this cruel act plz these horses need us to help save them. They need us to speak for them!!!!

[knockedsenselessXD]

@sanswutap amen to that.

@horsepower13579 you dont like it? Then do something about it. Take action if you want change, otherwise dont gripe about not getting it.

[miekeske1]

If we wouldn't be racist to animals, that wouldn't happen . If poeple wouldn't eat meat there should be less cattle & horses could stay alive !

[sanswutap]

As far as the wreak itself goes, anyone who knows horses knows you really can't blame those individuals. That no doubt all happened in a very short period of time, and not only are htey dealing with wild animals but frightened ones at that.

On the whole, the whole mustang project by BLM is flawed, and needs a lot of rethinking. I can't say I feel any safer with the HSUS being involved.

[TheCrosswind]

There should be several close off gates or something to stop them in the process, so help a horse in need. poorly designed system. they aren't cowboys - they just stand there and don't even show concern to help. be a man!!

[cowgirl29]

they round them up by helichopter but then have strict regulations on adopting them it just dont make sence

[horsepower13579]

:'( how the fuck can they just stand there and watch that happen :'( jesus help us

[marycar1960]

Infelices..:(

[EveyTheUnforgotten]

I hate how they round up these poor horses. >=/ And they use those damn cowboys to do it! They don't care about the horses! They only want the land for their damn cows! They need to find a better and humane way to do this.. Or just let nature take it's course like it has since the beginning of time!

[735hotcakes]

The problem with this operation was the cross support bar, it was about 2 feet or 3 feet two low, they don't want to go under it. my wild mustang was the same way at first