Honest Horses

In 1999, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Paula Morin a grant to research the impact of wild horses in the desert that compete for the scant resources of a drought-parched West. Morin spent two years interviewing 62 people who know the mustangs best: veterinarians, range scientists, agents of the federal Bureau of Land Management and even cowboy poets. They reveal how to best care for these horses while being respectful stewards of the land. Most import