Please don’t trash the Tonto National Forest!

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Please don’t trash the Tonto National Forest!

March 1, 2021

By haleyw@moonbirdstudios.com

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February 27th

Please don’t trash the Tonto National Forest, it is their home.

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Sincerely, SRWHMG.

Some areas of the Tonto National Forest are becoming so shamefully trashed.

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It was so sad, we saw tiny little sprouting grasses come up a few weeks ago Monday, 12, Apr
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This Arizona Gives day we plead with you Monday, 12, Apr

Our one and only 2021 foal (So far)
Please welcome this absoluty beautiful filly to the Salt River herd! She is out of sire Champagne and mom Blue. Taking after her dad, she does not have blue eyes and she does not have the grey factor like her mom and her brother "little Blue". Therefore we thought it was appropriate to name her to match her Dad Champagne, plus her bubbly personality; we will call her Bubbles! Please join us in making a toast to her staying healthy wild and free!

As most of you know, on account of the enormous popularity of this herd, we always wait to share vulnerable newborns, (as well as injured/monitored horses, or locations), until they are no longer in jeopardy. What happens when sharing newborns or injuries or locations is that too many people at the same time will be drawn in. (Like we've seen with feed locations lately) Before you know it there are crowds, that sometimes knowingly or unknowingly interfere with their bonding and development, or healing. (And also, it only takes one bad person.) So we have learned to be very cautious, and we hope you all don't mind being patient.

The first two weeks of a foals life are the most risky. All kinds of danger looms for them; they can get dehydrated, they can get kicked, they can get lost or stolen, or they can drown. So it is imperative that mom and foal have enough time to bond and that the band does not get split up by bachelor stallions, or by people. We have been monitoring this new mom and foal every day, and she has had a few close calls already, but at two weeks and a few days old now, we feel she is good and strong.

We are so grateful and want to express our thanks to all photographers and volunteers, who also waited patiently, and cared more about this little one, than about the opportunity to be the first to publish this cuteness overload. These are just a small selection of the top 15 most amazing pictures these photographers and volunteers have sent to us. They are all taken with zoomlenses and with respect for the horses. Thank you all so much for keeping her private in her vulnerable first two weeks of life.

Lets all remember when out photographing, to keep the FOCUS on the well being of the subjects of your photography, so that we can all enjoy them for a long time to come.

As always with thanks to the AZDA for their great partnership in the humane management of the Salt River wild horses.

SRWHMG.

Photos by Rick Blandford, Chris Markes, Pattie Walsh, Chris Roberson, Robin O'Donnel, Pattie Ranweiler, Rosa Ramsthaler, Debra Mykitiak and Cricket Weber. ... See MoreSee Less

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She sure does have a bubbly personality! She has a wonderful band to grow up in and I like her taking her name from dad. Her blaze even runs over on her left side like Champagne. ❤️

She is so adorable and the name just fits her little personality ❤️

She is absolutely adorable and I love her name. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for these beautiful photos 😎

Beautiful !!!

So precious! Thanks to all of the great photographers for sharing these beautiful pictures.

Happy Birthday 🥳 little Bubbles welcome to this amazing world 🌎

Precious angel! Dear God please protect this baby and give her a long life I pray!❤️🙏🙏🙏

Beautiful Filly! Love her name!!

Great photos. Thank you for sharing these. Makes my heart happy.

So sweet and innocent. Beautiful photos and thanks for sharing.

Thank you and welcome to the world Bubbles ♥️🐴♥️

I love how the horses all have names!

So beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

What a cute name for a cutie like her❤️

Hope a lot of you are going to Heber to help the wild horses up there.

She is just beautiful.

She is bubblicious 💗🐴

Beautiful❤️❤️❤️

Born free!

The FS is trying to get rid of the whole herd

So pretty

Exciting

Nice

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This is an AP article about the Heber wild horse plan that we holeheartedly oppose. This week is the last opportunity for the public to weigh in, which we hope you will take the time to do. Comments are more effective when they are polite and have a good point.
This is the only place where you can submit your comments. Remember there are actually humane ways available to the forest service to manage their numbers. Remember that the forage allocation was only counted by the size of the rerrirory, not by the actual size of the acreage where they roam. Remember that they are a historic herd protected by federal law. Remember that they bring Arizona and the local communities income and recreation. And last but not least, remember that these are our public lands in which the opinion of the public should matter most. Thank you for taking the time to give the Heber wild horses a voice. Here is the link: cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public//CommentInput?Project=18916 ... See MoreSee Less

Forest Service opens public comment for horse removal plan

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PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has entered its final stages of public comment in its plans to remove or sterilize more than 300 wild horses in eastern Arizona. The federal agency has...

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Faith Wight

Comments have been submitted.

submitted my comments

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Submitted my comment earlier today, and hope the PZP program can be utilized to help the Heber Wild Horses.

Cody Henderson Samantha Vark Please read and advocate for these wild horses. PZP is a humane way to manage the numbers yet still keep the heard. I already commented but the more, the better.

This is an article, where is the link for comments?

Submitted my comments to stop any roundup of the Heber Wild Horses & shared

I filled this out. I hope everyone who has a heart does.

Help the wild horses

PLEASE!!! Take a minute to do this!!!

HOW ABOUT NO.NO REMOVAL.

Can you add the link to comment on the AP article? Thx !

Done

Submitted my comment and shared.

Sent my comments.

Done

Submitted comment ❤️

Nikki Koren-Jutte...,

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🔎 While the Apache Sitgreaves EA claims that there were only 7 horses in 1974 (according to one short walkabout), it did not take us very long to find actual proof that the Heber wild horses have been around, since at least 1907 and ofcourse likely centuries before. (They were brought over by the Spanish, even before most of our own ancestors arrived here.)

📰This is not a very clear photo, but anyone can look this evidence up in the AZ State archives, Holbrook Argus, 1907.

🗑 They are also the last herd in Arizona on Forest Service land that is protected by the Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971. So we ask the Apache Sitgreaves Forest Service don't treat these treasures like trash!

❗The Heber wild horses are a historic population that merits real protection and sincere humane management by the Forest Service.

⚠️We are urging everyone to make a polite and sincere comment to this very bad plan on the Forest Service website, it is the only way they might take it into account.

🐴 Comments are most effective if they are polite and make a good point. Our point is: there is a better, more sustainable, cheaper, and more humane way to manage wild horse population numbers. It is a proven safe and efficient method called PZP that can be darted in the field without capture. This is what the forest service must try first, before any extreme removals to unsustainable numbers. Don't just comment on this post, please take the time to help make a difference, click below to submit your comment. ⤵️

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I gave my nice and polite, factual comment too.

They are magestic. Pzp.

Amazing!

Done!

Done

Done! We saw yesterday a band of horses with one foal grazing peacefully within a half mile of at least 40 deer on black canyon road. Pzp is the modern humane way to go! Keep up the fight.

I have written recently. In addition to the plan to move Heber herds, the Forrest service and law enforcement has sadly lacked in solving a number of shot wild horses.

Another article

Great historical find! It’s proof enough for me. Thank you for sharing.

Such a historic monument as this herd is deserves every protection! ❣️

I will pray for the horses, they will need it. As for the rest of you? Too little, too late. Those animals need their own legal protection.

I believe there were horses there in 1907 but surely there is better evidence than two men who thought horses were growing “wings like a wild goose.”

Thank you for the link that made it quick and easy.

Done! Thank you for sharing. <3

And yet in 2013 there were none? Are the ones there today all estray Reservation horses?

I WISH they had wings!!!

What plan?

Done!

Done. Thx.

Done

✔done

Done

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Wow. Liars. Every lie will be revealed. 🙏🏼🇺🇸🙏🏼❤️

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