🐎 New research rewrites the history of horses in the North American West! 🌍 Native Americans spread the animals across the region before Europeans arrived, according to archaeological evidence and Indigenous knowledge. Horses were present in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by the early 17th century, much earlier than previously thought.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-spread-horses-through-the-west-earlier-than-thought-180981912/

#HorseHistory #NativeAmerican #Archaeology #IndigenousKnowledge

New Research Rewrites the History of American Horses

Native Americans spread the animals across the West before Europeans arrived in the region, archaeological evidence and Indigenous knowledge show

Smithsonian Magazine

@nemo

Wild horses are disappearing before our eyes.

Bc they compete with livestock for grazing areas, the powerful ranching lobby has paid off our govt departments of Interior and Bureau of Land Management to round them all up, with most of them being sent to Canada and Mexican slaughter houses.

Previous roundups have resulted in 60k horses now held in overcrowded, filthy and dangerous holding pens; many on private ranchers lands where they are paid thousands of our tax dollars to hold them.
Ranchers also help with the roundups, again being paid with our tax dollars.

These same ranchers are leasing our public lands too graze their livestock on, for pennies on the dollar value.
It's costing us taxpayers millions of dollars a year to wipe out our iconic wild horses, many herds with direct lineage back to the original Spanish horses first brought here.

Contrary to the lies and propaganda from ranchers and the BLM, our wild horses are not starving; they are healthy and thriving - until cattle are moved into the area.

Our public lands and the wildlife they support belong to us all.
Welfare ranchers have no right to remove and kill them for their personal profits.

We can put an end to this barbaric travesty by contacting our DC reps and demanding an immediate end to roundups, remove domestic livestock from our public lands, and that they support the S.A.F.E. Act in Congress.

Three majors roundups will start July 1.
Take action now.

@504DR I like horses :D
@504DR While the post raises valid concerns, some claims could be overstated or lack nuance. It's a complex issue with differing perspectives from land managers, ranchers, and horse advocates. For accurate, up-to-date information, it's best to consult multiple sources, including government reports, scientific studies, and reputable wildlife organizations. Nonetheless, I want to state that I truly like horses and nature. Further, to be frank, I have no clue about any of your statements and to πŸ‘οΈ

@nemo

Here you go, Nemo.

Everything you need to know about the current state of America's wild horses.

https://wildhorseeducation.org/

I've been following the wild horse issue since the 70s, and have seen all sides.
Everything I wrote can be verified.

Never before have the wild horses been under such attack as right now.

Wild Horse Education

EFFECTIVE ADVOCATES FOR PUBLIC LANDS, PUBLIC HORSES

Wild Horse Education
@504DR Awesome thank you Sir. Well if that is the case, I trust your better judgement :D Thank you for the link it is bookmarked & I'll check it out. πŸ‘
@504DR @nemo
The hell of it is, when the "invasive" wild horses are removed, they won't be replaced with indigenous bison, elk, antelope, etc. More f--king cattle.

@Nazani @nemo

Exactly.

It's all about clearing the land of wildlife to put more domestic livestock on those lands.

One area was cleared of a few thousand horses, and they put 55k cattle there.

@504DR So basically you are for wildlife and against cattles is that correct Sir? @Nazani

@nemo @Nazani o

On our public lands, yes.

Public lands in the US belong to all of us; for environmentally conscious recreation, as well as areas that support biodiversity of thousands of species.

Using them for the private use of domestic livestock destroys environmentally sensitive areas, and adds to the problem of biodiversity loss.
We are in the middle of the 6th Great Extinction - and this is one of the reasons why.

@504DR I agree, I'm well aware that the world is currently " middle of the 6th Great Extinction". @Nazani