GINGER KATHRENS is an Emmy Award-winning producer, cinematographer, writer and editor as well as an award-winning author. Her documentary filmmaking trips have taken her to Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America and all over the U.S. She filmed and produced the acclaimed Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies and Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns for WNET’s Nature series on PBS. Cloud will return to PBS on October 25th, with Cloud: Challenge of The Stallions. Five years in the making, it is Kathrens’ next chapter in the life of the charismatic wild stallion she has documented since his birth in May of 1995. Ginger’s revealing journey with wild horses has been compared to Jane Goodall’s experiences with Chimpanzees. Her documentation of Cloud represents the only continuing chronicle of a wild animal from birth in our hemisphere. (cont'd)
Support SAVING AMERICA'S HORSES, the documentary film campaign. Because all horses need to be protected from slaughter!
To help save these majestic horses, Call and Email President Obama and Vice President Biden and tell them that you do not want a misguided agency destroying Americas wild horses!
Call 202-456-9000 or 202-456-1111
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Tell them to intervene on behalf of the Pryor Wild Horse Herd. The BLM appears to be on a rampage to manage wild horses to extinction!
A Stallion is rounded up in Challis, Idaho- photo by Elisa Kline. July 2009.
Cloud and the wild horses of Montana’s Pryor Mountains are world famous but fame it appears is not going to protect the herd from a drastic government round up planned to begin September 1st in their spectacular wilderness home.
There are currently only 190 wild horses (one year and older) living in the Pryor Mountains. The BLM plans to remove 70 of them, plus foals. According to the foremost equine geneticist, Dr. Gus Cothran, 150-200 adult horses are needed in the herd to ensure their genetic diversity, which is vital to their long term survival.
These 70 horses would be placed in jeopardy. Any horses over 10 years of age can be bought directly by killer buyers and transported over the Northern border to Canadian slaughterhouses or south into Mexico. Younger horses not adopted would be put into government holding with 33,000 others that the BLM has removed from the wild and has proposed killing because they can no longer afford to feed them.
BLM cites poor range condition as the reason to remove the horses but abundant snow and rain for the past two and a half years has produced wonderful range conditions according to all who have visited Cloud and his herd. The Agency is not listening to anyone. They want this herd gutted. Nearly all the mares returned to the range would be given an experimental two-year infertility drug, PZP-22.
MORE WAYS TO TAKE ACTION:
Petition to Sign:
Stop the Massive Removal of Cloud's Wild Horse Herd
Letters to BLM:
State Office 5001 Southgate Drive
Billings, MT 59101
Phone: 406 896-5000
Fax: 406 896-5299
E-mail: MT_SO_Information@blm.gov
State Director: Gene Terland
Associate State Director: Howard Lemm
"Cloud Challenge of Stallions" Coming to your PBS station on October 25th, 2009
Last Chance to Save Nevada's Wild Horses
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Urgent and Final Plea to Save the Pryor Mountains Endangered Wild Horses!
Tune in to WFL Endangered Stream Live for "Angels for Cloud" and listen to Ginger Kathrens Founder and Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation, as she makes her final plea in effort to save these magnificent horses. Learn how to help stop the impending doom which is being sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management, BLM.
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Below is a glimps of what may be the last peace ever known by this majestic herd of horses. From: rimrockhumanesociety
Pryor Mountain's Wild Mustangs
Read about the Challis Idaho round up here
Documents Reveal BLM Secret Plan to Destroy Wild Horses
Noted Equine Geneticist Dr. Gus Cothran warns against massive removal
ABOUT THE PRYOR MOUNTAIN HERD
The Pryor Mountain Wild Horses are descended from escaped Spanish horses brought over by the conquistadors about 500 years ago. DNA evidence links the horses to those bred in the Caribbean during the conquest of Mexico and South America. Some Crow Indians believe the Pryor Horses are descended from their large herds that at one time roamed the Pryors. The wild horses may also be descendants of the Lewis and Clark expedition horses that were stolen from expedition member, Sergeant Nathanial Pryor, in 1806 in the Pryor Mountains. The herd is unique with strong Spanish characteristics and also a wide variety of coat colors.
Nevada's Wild Horses: What is happening to Americas Wild Horses in Nevada is happening in every state that still has wild horses. Its seems as if there is a definite plan by the BLM to get all wild horses off of our public lands. Currently, Nevadas Ely District BLM is planning on "zeroing out" or permanently removing 11 wild horse herds with a total population of over 600 horses, in addition, they are taking another million acres from their historic rangelands. The herds slated for removal any day now are, the Golden Gate-Seaman Combined, the White River & Caliente. (more)
ANGELS FOR CLOUD: Featuring music from "I'm Comin Home"
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Special Thanks to The Cloud Foundation, Maria Daines, Rim Rock Humane Society, MillersReflections
