{"id":72509,"date":"2024-04-22T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=72509"},"modified":"2024-04-25T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:18:42","slug":"for-earth-day-lets-examine-the-claim-that-wild-horses-overgraze-their-habitats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=72509","title":{"rendered":"For Earth Day, let’s examine the claim that wild horses overgraze their habitats…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Earth Day, let’s examine the claim that wild horses overgraze their habitats, as alleged by the CBD in their lawsuit against the Salt River wild horses.<\/p>\n

Observations by thousands of people documenting in real time, show that while horses do eat forage, they don’t destroy it. In fact the daily documentation proves the opposite.<\/p>\n

Here you see the day Iris was born, the forage was green everywhere. However, as soon as our Arizona temperatures rise, the forage starts to wither and dry out, as you can see here again barely a month later, with Venus and Iris in the same area.<\/p>\n