I finally found some time this weekend to finish processing the last photo shoot I had with the Onaqui Herd of wild horses.  It’s amazing how well-known the herd is.  I ran into a photographer from Minnesota that tries to get out and photograph the herd when they come to Utah for skiing every year.

This years foals are just starting to be born.  Several of the mares were really big.  Glad to have found the majority of the herd, the last few times it has been difficult to find them.  There were a lot of cows in the area.  Grazing permits seem to take priority over the wild horses.  We guessed there to be over 1,000 head of cattle on the Onaqui Herm Management Area.  The BLM also grazes about 2,500 sheep in the HMA every year…..but the herd will be cut in half this fall by the BLM because there isn’t enough resources for that many horses.  To give you an idea how big the HMA is, it would cover the Wasatch Front from North Salt Lake, to Orem; and from the Wasatch mountains to the Oquirrh mountains…