Weeeeell, Bust My Buttons, That’s a Horse of Different Color!

• Wild Horse Beats Odds
• BLM Sets Sale of Wild Horses in Northern Wyoming POWELL, Wyo. (AP) – Horse lovers will have the opportunity to adopt a wild horse from the McCullough Peaks Herd Management Area in northern Wyoming on April 9^th and 10^th.
• H.R. 4867 Introduced into the House of Representatives on March 17, 2010 by Congressman Walter B. Jones, NC-3 “To direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement to provide for management of the free-roaming wild horses in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge.”
  • Corolla Wild Horse website
  • Corolla Wild Horse History from KBRHorse.net
• Wild Horse Adoptions in Edinburgh this Weekend
• Wild Horses Leaving Southern Illinois, Concerns Remain – you really do want to read this one… video too.
• Court Set to Hear Challenge to Feds’ Care of Wild Horses
• Wild Horses in a Georgia Wilderness? Cumberland Island National Seashore Completes Annual Count
• Shackleford Banks Wild Horses
• A Horse is a Horse Of Course… Until He Gets a Song…
• The BLM Eastern States Webpage: info on upcoming adoptions, internet and onsite.
• The International Museum of the Horse
  • Legacy of the Horse
• T-BAR Rescue, Brenham, TX – The De’Aeth Family and their wonderful rescues won big with ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover Edition in 2006…
• Habitat for Horses 
• Mustangs – from the Handbook of Texas Online
  • From The Little Rock Arkansas Gazette of July 10, 1839, speaking of the Mustangs of Texas: “The mustang or wild horse is certainly the greatest curiosity to those unaccustomed to the sight, that we meet with upon the prairies of Texas. They are seen in vast numbers, and are often times of exceeding beauty. The spectator is compelled to stand in amazement, and contemplate this noble animal, as he bounds over the earth, with the conscious pride of freedom. We still meet with many in the lower counties, and during the summer hundreds were seen in the neighborhood of Houston, darting over the plains, and seeming to dare the sportsman for a contest in the chase.”

 

Texas – “The Reddest State in the Nation in Politics, But the Greenest in the Nation for Energy” 

Texas Power is Blowing in the Wind – State Uses $5B P3 For Green Energy DALLAS — One of the largest public-private partnerships in Texas involves transmission of electricity produced by wind. The $5 billion Competitive Renewable Energy Zone transmission network represents a new way of building a system for bringing power to major population centers. In the case of CREZ, the power is not coming from traditional coal, gas or nuclear plants but from wind farms in isolated areas of West Texas that have become known as the largest source of renewable energy in the nation. (Click here for more.)

State Energy Conservation Office Texas currently leads the nation in wind development, and the Texas electric transmission grid has a critical need for expansion. Wind energy production in remote areas of the state has jumped dramatically over the past few years, putting heavy demands on the transmission systems that deliver electricity from the best resource locations in remote areas to where it will be used in urban areas. (Click here for more.)

The Infinite Power of Texas: Generation for Generations The Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) created the Infinite Power of Texas Renewable Energy Educational Campaign to accelerate the acceptance of renewable energy resources in Texas. SECO’s Innovative Energy Demonstration Program promotes the use of renewable energy and sustainable building practices through technology demonstration, hands-on instruction and renewable energy education.  Renewable energy can have significant economic development, security and reliability benefits and opportunities for Texas communities and… (Click here for more.)

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