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Archive for October 17th, 2009Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions Premiere
Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions airs on PBS stations nationwide on Sunday, October 25th Dear Friends of Cloud, The third Cloud program airs next week! We hope that you will join us for this show- a story more dramatic than filmmaker Ginger Kathrens could ever have imagined. Additionally, you can now watch George Knapp’s investigative report “Stampede to Oblivion” online. Watch this one-hour special online now and then tune into your local PBS station on Sunday, October 25th to watch the new Cloud program, followed by a live chat online with Ginger. You can download a flier to share here (just fill in your local broadcast time). Gather friends and family to watch the show and then write your Senators and President Obama – demand that our wild horses be protected and preserved in the west. You can watch a trailer for the new show here. Dramatic change is needed in order to protect the last of our wild horses in the west – help us to get kids and adults alike to demand immediate change for America’s wild horses and burros! Cloud Returns to PBS Nature Series in New Program! Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions premieres Sunday evening, October 25th, 2009 on PBS stations nationwide. This program is the next chapter in the exciting life of the charismatic stallion, Cloud, and the wild horses of the spectacular Arrowhead Mountains of Montana. This new adventure captures the twists and turns of a complex family drama in a unique wild horse wilderness. Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions is a tale of two stallions, Cloud and Shaman, who raise each other’s sons: Flint and Bolder. When the lovable colts mature into adult challengers, they battle the very stallions who raised them. Five years in the making, this unpredictable tale is both epic and intimate, tragic and joyful. Cloud fights to win new mares, surprising foals are born, lethal predators prowl, and a government bait trapping operation endangers Cloud’s family. Ginger Kathrens again captures the dynamic and beautiful world of wild horses. “I hope the new show underscores just how complex wild horse society is,” states Kathrens. “And not just complex but unpredictable. In my wildest dreams I never imagined a story this dramatic.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8511 Keep Working for the Survival of Our Wild Herds
Conquistador is now back with his mare on a ranch in Montana The month of September was full of tragedy and also a lot of hope. 57 horses, aged less than one month to over 21 years old, were removed from their home in the Pryors. Rain, Image, Arrow, Ember, Sage and Summer were among the young horses to lose their freedom and families. I can report that all are doing well in their new homes. The real tragedy of this roundup was the removal of ten horses over the age of ten and the total number of horses removed. The Pryors herd is now only at 125. Montana’s only remaining wild horse herd is now below the levels recommended for minimum genetic viability and a number of the horses on the mountain top, including Cloud, are still lame. Thanks to you and amazing efforts by Billings residents, the four family bands who were removed in their entirety from the Pryors are back together on a beautiful ranch in Montana, located at the base of their mountain home. Watching Conquistador reunite with his mare, Cavalitta, and Bo, Shane and Trigger do the same with their families was certainly a miracle. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, through your donations to the Freedom Fund, you action and your support. Donations for the continued work of the Cloud Foundation and care of these horses is still needed – please donate here. From the auction the Cloud Foundation took the horses’ cause to Washington DC. Many advocates spoke at the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Advisory board meeting but this board is stacked against the horses and behaves much like the BLM. However, the next day we had a marvelous press conference at which Congressman Grijalva spoke and took questions. The group then met with over 45 Senate offices for “Mustangs on the Hill” to support the ROAM Act (S. 1579). Full video coverage of the Advisory Board Meeting and Press Conference should be up on the www.nvHorsePower.org site this week. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8509 |
