| Ecology, Earth Environment, Nature and Wildlife: |
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Native
American
Church
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Ghost
Dancers |
This is a very new and still developing website for a still developing, spiritually based organization in which an actual, meaninful top priority is placed on spiritual principles of adopting personal and social lifestyles of respecting all life forms on our severely wounded planet.
This group also very seriously is confronting and challenging the modern day continuations of invasive governments' social policies and practices of forced subservience, oppression, repression and degredation of indigenous, native American Indians, their traditional cultures and their established organizations of various indigenous nations.
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Although neglectful of wild horses (as is the case with all of the other websites that are listed in this category), natural ecologist and conservationist Dave Foreman's REWILDING INSTITUTE comes the closest to promoting the kind of bold approach that is needed for major changes that actually could be significantly effective in restoring meaningful, ecological balance to the planet.
This editor believes that The Rewilding Institute is the only one of these sites which presents a plan strong enough to actually make a long sustainable difference.
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This website very probably connects more closely than any others to the most essential issues that are discussed on this editor's two websites. As its banner suggests, it goes far more deeply into American Indian cultural and spiritual perspectives,
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Western Watersheds Project: In recent, this Idaho organization actually achieved various degrees of positive action results, to remove some environmentally destructive commercial cattle grazing from western range lands. It obtained federal court rulings to somewhat limit the continued Bureau of Land Management (BLM) abuse and destruction of public lands for private interest profit, at the expense of wilderness preservation for public welfare.
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| Natural Horse Keeping, Care & Relationship
Training (General): |
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Both Natural Horse Magazine and it's webiste at www.naturalhorse.com often are valuable resources, for staying aware of
the latest information regarding the full range of Natural
Horse issues, as well as many related topics such as natural ecology and holistic and organic applications and lifestyles. It's heavily oriented toward herbal remedies and holistic treatments for horses. Subscriptions are available for both mailed, hard copy editions and on line viewing, with complete archives available, going back to the very first edition that was published in 1999. |
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In many ways, the If Your Horse Could Talk, online "radio" program, at www.naturalhorsetalk.com and Natural Horse Magazine are very mutually supportive of each other and combine to provide a wealth of information in a variety of media forms, in regard to natural horse care and handling. It seems only natural, then, that Natural Horse Talk Radio's creator and host, Lisa Ross-Williams made her OFF-the-air debut as the new, Associate Editor of Natural Horse Magazine in February, 2008. For anyone interested where this activity is centered, the magazine is published in Pennsylvania and the talk show originates from Arizona.. |
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The Headquarters for the Natural Horse Network is located in Colorado. This site contains a wide variety of natural horse information and viewpoints that may be of interest to horse owners and professionals everywhere, including information about wild horses.
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THE SOQUILI CENTER website is published by Ed Littlefox, presenting a number of very interesting American Indian views and perspectives on living with and relating to horses. This material is presented with a philosophy that very directly applies to modern day horse handling and horse keeping methods and problems, including such concerns as horse slaugher and the NAIS. |
| Natural Hoof Trimming for Horses : |
Material on the first two websites, below, is recommended especially to those who may be thinking of learning about performing their own hoof trimming of their own horse(s) FOR THE FIRST TIME. |
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This is the Marjorie Smith site.
It is filled with excellent photos to illustrate the information
and probably is most useful for those who plan
to trying doing hoof trimming, themselves, for the very first time
. For the more experienced, do-it-yourself hoof trimmers, this is a continually updated
site, so as to be a good resource for keeping current
with recent and still ongoing changes in natural hoof trimming methods. www.barefoothorse.com/ |
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This is Peter Laidely's web site, out of Australia.
Offered for sale on this web site, is an interactive CD, for horse
owners who want to learn and begin doing their own natural hoof
trimming of their horse(s). The CD is an outstanding resourse for learning about hoof care and barefoot trimming..
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MATERIAL ON THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES IS RECOMMENDED TO MORE EXPERIENCED BAREFOOT TRIMMERS, FOR PURPOSES OF EVALUATING AND COMPARING VARIOUS UPDATED AND STILL CHANGING METHODS AND PHILOSOPHIES ON THE SUBJECT. |
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Hope For Soundness
This is Gene Ovnichek's website for "Natural Balance Hoof Care" and the Equine Digital Support System (EDSS), which also is a source for a wide range of hoof trimming tools.
www.hopeforsoundness.com/
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Although giving much respectful credit to Dr. Strasser for being
such a valuable pioneer in this field, this website's editor
DOES NOT ENDORSE THE ACTUAL STRASSER METHOD of barefoot hoof trimming.. |
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| Wild Horses Preservation and
Horse Slaughter Info: |
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American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign |
Probably the most extensive source of up to date information about American wild horses.
(Our editor takes exception, however, to the last 3 recommedation on this site's SOLUTIONS page, for naturally destructive eco-tourism, use of infertility drugs and making deals with public lands ranchers.)
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Some wild horse websites primarily are very much single herd oriented, such as Emmy Award winner and natural ecologist Ginger Kathrens' site for The Cloud Foundation.
Yet, research being done here is to benefit ALL Wild Horses.
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The
American
Horse
Defense Fund |
This is a very active organization, which organized a 2005 rally in Washington, D.C., supporting both wild horse preservation and the outlawing of horse slaughter.
(Our editor takes exception, however, to this site's occasional promotion of wild horse management procedures, such as infertility drug use.)
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This site is endorsed as an important source for updated information on WILD HORSE (and horse slaughter) legislation. |
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This group primarily is engaged in its domesticated horse rescue activities. However, it very actively devotes a generous amount of it resources to publicizing essential information about the need to save and preserve the few remaining, free roaming wild horses in the U.S.
With the exeception of its apparent endorsement of the Madeline Pickens plan for a rescued wild horse tourist attraction, this editor basically endorses most of the wild horses information on this horse rescue website.
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| The HORSE SLAUGHTER PREVENTION Websites, directly below: |
| The following two links (numbers 6 & 7, appearing side by side) are for very closely related websites, publishing information about horse slaughter that is input from a network of key individuals who continually have been the most honestly informed and actively involved in opposing the immoral, profiteering practices of commercial horse slaughter. |
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Nineteen
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on-line VIDEO
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| Wild Horses DVD and VHS tape
cassette Programs: |
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"Currently a home to over 200 rescued, formerly wild burros and horses", this is a sanctuary in California, that also is very actively involved in educational activies, related to wild horses.
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The operation of this sanctuary seems to have incorporated every imaginable way of commercialized exploitation of formerly wild horses. Still, as an alternative to their having gone to slaughterhouses, this
is an 11,000 acre home and sanctuary
for "hundreds" of wild horses in South Dakota, in a "natural
habitat" that they reportedly share with coyotes, cougars,
deer, elk, eagles,falcons, and
other wildlife.
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Wild
Horse Spirit, Ltd. |
Co-founded
by Bobbi Royale and Betty Kelly in 1993 and located
in Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, Wild Horse Spirit is a
labor of love to preserve, protect and assist wild
mustangs, both on public and private lands.
Come
meet "The Spirits" !
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Photos (internet sources for some photos on this site): |
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With appreciation to FreeNaturePictures.com., for providing royalty free nature photos (specifically of a fawn, a raccoon and a mountain, which have been modified to be used in combination on the masthead for pages on this website. If you, yourself, have any interest in such photos, you can use this link to this free photos website.
http://www.FreeNaturePictures.com/ |
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With appreciation to PD Photo.org for providing royalty free photos which have been used in sometimes modified forms on this website. If you, yourself, have any interest in such photos, you can use this link to this free photos website.
http://www.PDPhoto.org/ |
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| Natural Animal Relationships, Country Music CDs: |
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Two
audio CDs, the first callied The
Trail Less Travelled, present country music
singer and natural horse advocate, Mary Ann Kennedy,
with her group of backup musicians, performing s a variety
of her own compositions, from tender ballads to uptempo
and humorous about caring for horses and other animal
friends. Preview samples
of the music can be heard on her web site. In 2005, Mary Ann Kennedy released a second, similar audio CD, also available on this website.
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