A Film and Conversation About Wild Horses and Public Lands Management

Western Watersheds Project invites you to a screening of Wild Beauty, a visually striking documentary that traces the history of wild horses in North America and the modern controversies surrounding their management on public lands.

Wild horses are among the most polarizing animals in the West. They are celebrated as symbols of freedom, blamed for land degradation, and routinely positioned as a management problem in need of removal. At the same time, livestock grazing, the single most widespread use of public lands and a leading driver of ecological harm, is often treated as a neutral or inevitable backdrop rather than a policy choice.

Following the film, Western Watersheds Project will facilitate a candid conversation that situates wild horses within the broader reality of public lands management. Rather than recycling familiar talking points, the discussion will examine what land health science shows, how livestock grazing shapes ecological outcomes, and why wild horses are so often scapegoated for impacts driven by chronic overgrazing and structural subsidy.

This conversation is for anyone interested in moving beyond symbolism and conflict toward a clearer understanding of responsibility, law, and ecological limits on America’s public lands.

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