{"id":1873,"date":"2015-02-23T13:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2020-08-16T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:24:53","slug":"wild-horse-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Wild Horse Gather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Eunice,<br \/>\nI thought you&#8217;d be interested in the following email (pasted below) that I just received from the new wildlife biologist at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. He wants to stop using a helicopter to do periodic park-wide roundups of the wild horses for culling and only use low-stress livestock handling for more frequent culling of smaller bands. To that end he had me out to do an introductory clinic for he and his staff and they&#8217;ve taken it from there.<\/p>\n<p>Whit Hibbard &#8211; Montana<br \/>\n___________<\/p>\n<p>Hey Whit,<br \/>\nI just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I captured a band of eight horses on February 13th using LSLH techniques on foot to herd them into our corral facilities. It was a great experience.<\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>Glad to hear that Bud&#8217;s teachings are spreading in the right direction. Bud &amp; I worked with Whit at the Big-Bend National Park in 2007 to teach how to gather the trespass animals who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. Some people already seem to think that Bud didn&#8217;t use or approve the use of horses, which isn&#8217;t the case at all, so I&#8217;m going to comment on the fact that Whit&#8217;s friend gathered these horses on foot. By working on foot, a person isn&#8217;t tempted to try to out-run their mistakes which will only make matters worse. There is no reason you can&#8217;t do the same horse back or in a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Eunice Williams &#8211; Missouri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Eunice, I thought you&#8217;d be interested in the following email (pasted below) that I just received from the new wildlife biologist at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. He wants to stop using a helicopter to do periodic park-wide roundups of the wild horses for culling and only use low-stress livestock handling for more frequent culling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockmanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}