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Rescued horses at Zuma’s give cancer patients and families a new lens on life
The Healing Herd program at Zuma’s Rescue Ranch in Littleton, Colorado, offers no-cost, equine-assisted therapy to anyone affected by cancer. Singer’s days of moving freely are long over. Born with a club foot, the 20-year-old Quarter Horse chestnut mare now needs custom cushioned boots just to comfortably stand and walk short distances. Carrying the weight…
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Colorado creates a collaborative framework for wild horse conservation
In response to controversial helicopter-driven roundups, Colorado is pioneering more humane approaches to wild equine management that involve multiple stakeholders and perspectives. The Sand Wash Basin herd management area (HMA) in northwest Colorado is rocky, rugged, high-desert habitat. Comprising primarily 155,000 acres of federal public land, it’s dotted with sagebrush, bunchgrass, saltbush, and pinyon and…
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The Wild Horse Refuge in Colorado welcomes home a keystone species
This is the first of a two-part series about the Save America’s Wild Horses 2025 conference in Craig, Colorado. Our weathered but sturdy SUV ambled along a two-track dirt road that cut through vast acres of springtime sagebrush and bunchgrass. We were part of a small caravan of vehicles that had ventured out to see…
