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A Pad and a Pen, video 1By Laura Leigh on January 6, 2018
Wild Horse Education is a fast moving, boots on the ground, organization that takes our mission seriously. A big part of that mission is to educate the public, media, legislators and the courts.
We can not afford the public relations firms or hire film editing crews. We cant even afford fancy editing software and do most of our work in default programs on second hand computers. Even the cameras we use in field are refurbished and purchased as used. But we manage with a bit of creativity to create new caselaw and even change policy.
Right now we are dealing wth legislators that have been handed a bill of goods produced by a well funded livestock lobby with friends in high places at the Bureau of Land Management. We do understand that this agenda will not give ground on any fact in a world that prefers the alt kind.
However this agenda is confusing the public and media. Over the last decade drawing simple pictures in the dust on a vehicle has been a very effective illustrative tool when we take media into the field. With a camera, tripod, a bit of duct tape, a pad and a few markers, we simulated one of those illustrations for you. The video on social media is one minute long, this one is four and covers a few more facts about land base, forage and funds.
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/Fq1ZyBnd/whetestrun_dvd.mp4
What would you like to see us do next? Comment below if you would like to see us do 1. Range Degradation 2. Our latest legal action 3. NEPA for wild horse advocates (yes, NEPA can be broken down into a 5 minute line drawing) 4. What is a romantic notion and why they are so dangerous in the West? or any subject pertaining to wild horse management.
Laura Leigh is a Journalist, one of very few persons who actually file cases in Federal courts to try to save our Public Lands & Wild Horses from extermination. It's not an easy road to be vs DOI/BLM in Federal courts or face them on the ground at hundred's of hours of actual round-ups. When Journalists like this are gone- there are no others in the USA to stop them This is a four minute video, it explains the corruption stealing OUR public lands and how we actually pay the beef industry to steal from us all. https://wildhorseeducation.org/2018/01/06/a-pad-and-a-pen-video-1/
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Just so people know what we all lose today & lost past couple yrs when we look back 10 yrs from now. (Original Post)
Sunlei
Jan 2018
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(22,651 posts)1. about 15 yrs ago wild horses for miles around the hollywood sign area were removed, brush grows.
Brush grows because there aren't any native species grazing, spreading grass seeds along with their natural soil enrichment. The lands burn.
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