The Wild Horse Fire Brigade has some interesting and exciting news to share.
First, a team of lawyers at Vermont Law School, led by Professor Michael Harris (our ‘Legal Advisor’) and assisted by our Vice President and wild horse advocate Kelsey Stangebye, made an additional filing in the federal court in Washington D.C. this past Friday.
Normally, we wouldn’t spend time and energy on litigating unless we felt we had a novel fact-set and good chances of prevailing. Our legal experts feel this is the case in this filing. We will keep our subscribers updated as the case progresses.
In the meantime, this effort has temporarily shut down the trapping of wild horses from the Pokegama HMA until lawyers from the DOJ and the court makes a decision as to the alleged illegality of the BLM’s actions.
Secondly, I have been invited to present ‘Wild Horse Fire Brigade – Wildfires and Wild Horses’ at the upcoming EQUUS Film & Arts Festival in Sacramento, California. My presentation will be given at the Guild Theater on Saturday, December 3.
Some of our board members will be on the on-stage panel after the presentation concludes to answer audience questions, and afterwards, we’d love to meet our supporters and other interested people.
Through the generous support of award-winning Canadian musician-singer-songwriter Gina Lina — a new supporter of our organization and its efforts — and working with our long-time supporter Steve Hayes at Quiet Productions in Portland, OR, in collaboration with our team at Wild Horse Fire Brigade, we have combined a fresh new song written by Gina Lina for the wild horses with cinematography by Michelle Gough to create a new Wild Horse music video that we hope will inspire more support for the cause of saving the remaining American wild horses.
This new wild horse music video, ‘We Are The Wild Horses’, will premiere at the 2022 EQUUS Film & Arts Festival in Sacramento.
I have long promoted the science and logic of saving wild horses by natural means, but there is another tool that may help reach more Americans to become educated on the issues.
Just a few weeks ago, a newcomer to wild horse advocacy, Gina Lina, went online and visited our website. After reviewing the website contents, Gina said she was ‘compelled’ to write a song about wild horses that same night. Then she arranged to play for our Board the following day.
As we listened to this new song, played for the very first time to our board members, we were emotionally moved by it’s pure and simple message. And thus Gina’s personal odyssey of wild horse discovery began.
That odyssey led her to travel from Canada to the remote wilderness of Wild Horse Ranch, to see for herself the nobility and majesty of free-roaming wild horses. During her visit in search of the Wild Ones, and hoping for an encounter with the Wild Ones, our team captured on film, Gina’s personal odyssey.
Gina’s experience was filmed on location in the rugged wilderness of the Cascade-Siskiyou Mountains on the Oregon-California border. This is an authentic story and the inspiration that we hope will inspire more intelligent, natural advocacy for wild horses
We are hopeful that through the use of emotional intelligence (heart knowledge) provided by this special wild horse music video, that we can further inform advocates to enhance their own education and activism.
The song and music video are titled: ‘We Are The Wild Horses’. Our organization has the exclusive right to use this video/song in regard to wild horse advocacy.
This license, granted to Wild Horse Fire Brigade by Gina Lina, at no cost to our organization, allows us to maintain the purity and natural reasons for keeping wild horses ‘wild and free’ and unmolested by humans who incorrectly think they are wiser than Mother Nature.
We’d love to meet all of you personally at the EQUUS, time permitting.
William E. Simpson II is a naturalist, author, and conservationist living in the Soda Mountain wilderness area among the wild horses that he studies. Learn more at Wild Horse Fire Brigade.