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Former family farm now providing a safe, forever home and sanctuary for rescued northern mixed breed

All natural specialized horse boarding utilizing a track system (Paddock Paradise) and feed stations spread along varied terrain to encourage constant movement and natural herd behavior and interaction.

10/30/2026

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A friend of mine was murdered this week. Jessie Adams was chased down by a drone and killed while rescuing animals in Ukraine.

I texted with him the day before. I told him he was a hero. I asked him to be safe. I reminded him how much we needed him.

In this world of injustice where the shadow of evil hovers, laughing, Jesse was a beacon of compassion, fierce and loyal to the cause of rescue and the hope it delivers to all. His death, caused by a person playing a game, chasing down people and blowing them up at the direction of Vladimir Putin is now our reality - OUR reality.

Jesse went into the danger zones at the request of people who’d been forced to flee their homes without their pets. He went back to the save the innocents who were starving to death - waiting for their loved ones to return.

From Jesse:
“We took the great risks because these people and the animals desperately need our help. We took the risks because we would want someone to do the same for us if we needed help. We took the risks because there are not many that would have.”

Two days before his murder, sharing a video of a burning building, Jesse wrote the following on Instagram:

“This is what Putin’s Russia does to Ukraine every single day. They kill women, children, animals, families, and any other civilians they can…They hate democracy, independence, and freedom. This sound familiar from the past? If we do not do more to stop this evil now, it will spread all over Europe like a virus and then it will come to our front door at home in North America. China will try to take Taiwan, and North Korea will try to take South Korea. We will all be dragged into world war 3 and it will be a war that destroys most of the world. Ukraine is the last line of defense to hold the line and stop this here and now. Just like with Hi**er and the N***s telling the world they would not continue to invade Europe after Poland and Austria, well, look how that turned out. Our government’s waited so long to intervene, that we almost lost the world to N***s, and millions and millions of people had to die because of it, and to put a stop to it. This is happening all over again because of Putin’s Russia. We need to put a stop to this here and now. Please stand with Ukraine! Our futures and our children’s futures may very well depend on it.” ~Jesse Adams, The Dog Guy

In his honor we charge forward - the army of the faithful - to end suffering for all.

To support the organization Jesse founded, you may give to RainCoast Dog Rescue Society. To help in Ukraine, you may support Animal Rescue Kharkiv: https://www.animalrescuekharkiv.org/donate

10/29/2026

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North Rim. But without mule rides?

It may be a possibility being considered as the North Rim is rebuilt after the Dragon Bravo Fire. I know you care about the traditions that make Grand Canyon special, so it's time to speak up.

For generations, mule rides have been part of the Grand Canyon experience. For some, they're a lifelong dream. For others, they're a cherished memory, a family tradition, and a piece of the Canyon's living history.

These personable pack animals have carried visitors into the Canyon for generations. So as we reimagine the future of the North Rim, we need to ask an important question.

What happens to the mule rides?

The North Rim is more than buildings, roads, and utilities. It's an experience, a place with traditions, memories, and a character all its own. Recovery means making difficult decisions about safety, the environment, and operations, but we also need to consider what makes this place special and what we risk losing.

The National Park Service is gathering public input on concepts for the North Rim's long-term recovery and redevelopment. These are early concepts, not a final plan, which means NOW is the time to speak up!

📣 PUBLIC COMMENTS CLOSE NOVEMBER 6, 2026!

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If you believe North Rim mule rides should remain part of the Grand Canyon experience, tell the Park Service. If you've taken a ride, share your story. If it's been on your bucket list for years, explain why this tradition matters to you.

Even if you've never ridden a mule, consider what traditions like these mean to the history and character of our national parks.

🐴 Should North Rim mule rides remain part of the future of Grand Canyon National Park?

Share your thoughts and memories in the comments below, then take a few minutes to make your voice heard directly to the NPS. Don't assume someone else will speak up for you!

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Photo of yours truly, Haley, on a quirky mule down North Kaibab Trail, summer 2016!

10/27/2026

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News Release Judge issues injunction blocking Riddle Mountain wild horse roundup in victory for science-based management October 16, 2026

10/26/2026

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🐴 In 1928, an Idaho rancher named Elmer Cook noticed old bones wearing out of the bluffs above the Snake River, and that small moment led to one of the richest horse fossil finds in the world.

Cook was probably not the first person to spot them, but he was the first to understand they might matter. Smithsonian crews came to dig in 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1934, blasting into the cliffs and, in a lovely twist, using teams of living horses to help scrape the sediment away.

What they found were horses that lived roughly three to four million years ago, called Equus simplicidens. They were about the size of a zebra, a long way from the horses grazing in our pastures today, yet clearly kin. The National Park Service says the remains of more than 200 of them came out of the ground.

Idaho later chose the Hagerman horse as its state fossil, and the site is now Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument.

When you look at a horse today, do you ever picture how far back its family story goes?

10/26/2026

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Happy National Mule Day!

We’re grateful for the hardworking mules that support the Forest Service.

These sure-footed partners haul gear, assist fire crews, and help preserve true wilderness experiences where modern technology can’t reach.

Thank you to every mule and handler that works our forests and keeps our backcountry accessible! (Forest Service photo)

10/26/2026

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In 1993, Montana game wardens sent a tissue sample from an elk killed near Elliston to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forensics laboratory in Ashland, Oregon. They were trying to build a case against a poacher. The lab came back with something the wardens had not expected. The animal was not a pure Rocky Mountain elk. It was a third- or fourth-generation cross with European red deer.

Red deer are the elk’s closest Old World relative. They are smaller, more aggressive breeders, and they bellow instead of bugle. On game farms in the United States and overseas, they have been deliberately crossbred with elk to produce larger-antlered trophy animals. The hybrids are fertile. Their offspring are fertile. After three or four generations the animals look enough like elk that no one standing in the field would know the difference.

Worried by the Elliston result, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks collected tissue from 10 more elk killed legally by hunters in the same area. One carried red deer genes. A second was probably a hybrid, though the tests were inconclusive. None of the animals wore ear tags, which Montana law requires on captive elk. The nearest game farm was about 90 miles away. Heidi Youmans, who had authored the department’s report on game farms, told the press it looked like the state’s worst fears had been confirmed. “We have a problem,” she said. “It has happened.”

Officials could not determine whether the hybrid animals had escaped from a game farm, had been released accidentally during transport, or were the wild offspring of earlier escapees now breeding freely in the mountains. Montana already banned the import of red deer and hybrids, but genetic testing at the time had limits, and game farmers were often reluctant to report escapes.

The concern was not aesthetic. Red deer and elk diverged as species roughly two million years ago. They can interbreed because they share the same genus, but mixing them in a wild population dilutes the genetic identity of the native herd. Red deer genes can alter body size, antler structure, breeding behavior, and the timing of the rut. Once those genes enter a free-ranging elk population, there is no way to pull them back out. The animals carrying them look like elk, breed like elk, and pass the foreign DNA to every generation that follows.

Thirteen years later, the fear went from background worry to front-page crisis. In August 2006, roughly 160 captive elk broke through the fence of Rex Rammell’s Chief Joseph hunting preserve near Ashton, Idaho, about ten miles from the boundary of Yellowstone National Park. The elk had bolted through a hole dug under the fence by a bear. Rammell, a veterinarian, had a history of clashing with the Idaho Department of Agriculture over disease testing and fence maintenance. He had never properly tagged the animals.

Idaho Governor Jim Risch signed an emergency executive order on September 7 directing the immediate destruction of every escaped elk. The stated reasons were the risk of chronic wasting disease, brucellosis, tuberculosis, and red deer hybrid genes entering the wild herds of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Montana’s governor and Wyoming’s governor both pressed Idaho to act. Rammell was arrested for obstructing a Fish and Game officer. He later sued the state for $1.3 million.

When the results came back, every concern turned out to be empty. Thirty-six of the killed elk were tested. None carried chronic wasting disease. None had brucellosis or tuberculosis. None had red deer DNA. Tests on 61 live elk still at the preserve were also clean. The governor’s office declined to apologize.

Montana and Wyoming had already banned elk farming by that point. Idaho had not, though the Rammell escape pushed the state closer to doing so. The industry insisted that domestic elk posed no genetic threat to wild herds. The Elliston hybrids from 1993 said otherwise.

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Source: Deseret News/AP (1994) / Spokesman-Review (2006) / Idaho Fish and Game (2006) / Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks / Idaho Department of Agriculture

10/25/2026

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On March 22, 2002, bison approached eight sleeping Yellowstone wolves and made them move. When the wolves settled elsewhere, the bison followed and disturbed them again.

The encounter began at 9:09 a.m. in the Hellroaring area of northern Yellowstone National Park. Eight members of the Druid Peak wolf pack were curled up asleep in the snow when six bison walking at the front of a larger herd marched straight toward their beds. Rather than holding their ground against a line of animals that can weigh up to a ton apiece, the wolves got up, walked roughly 330 feet away, and lay back down to go back to sleep.

The herd did not let them rest. Two minutes later, the bison closed the distance again, walking to within about ten feet of the pack and forcing the wolves out of their beds a second time. Once again, the wolves walked another 330 feet away and lay down.

At 9:18 a.m., a single bison walked right up to one of the resting wolves. This time the wolf stood its ground and confronted the bison, and the rest of the pack jumped in to harass the animal for about thirty seconds. Two minutes later, the wolves gave up on the flat ground entirely. They turned ninety degrees and traveled several hundred yards up onto a rocky ridge to lie down out of the herd's path.

Even the climb did not end it. The bison eventually altered course, followed the pack up onto the ridge, and pushed the wolves out of their beds several more times.

Wolf biologists L. David Mech, Rick McIntyre, and Douglas Smith documented the morning in a 2004 paper published in *The Canadian Field-Naturalist*. The Hellroaring incident was one of six separate field observations collected in the paper showing Yellowstone bison acting with unprovoked aggression toward both wolves and elk.

In separate encounters recorded in the same study, bands of bull bison walked up to fresh wolf kills, lowered their heads, and charged the feeding packs to run them off the meat, even though bison are strict herbivores with no use for an elk carcass. Once the wolves scattered, the bulls simply stood over the dead elk and sniffed its head.

In other logged incidents, bison surrounded and repeatedly butted live elk that had wandered near the herd, including a healthy elk calf and a wounded cow elk that was trying to hide among the bison to escape hunting wolves. Whenever the elk calf tried to stand up and run away, the bison chased it down and knocked it flat again.

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995, their primary prey was elk. Because adult bison are three times heavier than elk and carry thick horns on massive necks, they are far more dangerous for a pack to pull down. Unlike elk, which rely on speed and try to outrun predators the moment they spot them, bison evolved to survive on open plains by standing their ground, bunching together, and charging directly at threats.

Mech, McIntyre, and Smith did not claim to know what was going through the bison's heads during the Hellroaring march. Instead, they proposed that the observations might point to a kind of generalized defensive aggression.

An instinct wired to make a one-ton herbivore walk straight at any potential threat in its territory works well for breaking up a wolf attack before it starts.

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Source: Mech, McIntyre & Smith (2004), The Canadian Field-Naturalist / U.S. Geological Survey / National Park Service.

10/23/2026

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On August 8, 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered federal marksmen to shoot the alpha female of the Fox Mountain wolf pack in New Mexico. At the time, the entire wild population of Mexican gray wolves stood at 58 animals, with roughly six breeding females left on the landscape. She was one of the six.

Every Mexican wolf alive today descends from seven founders captured when the subspecies was on the brink of extinction in the late 1970s. Federal biologists started releasing captive-bred wolves back into the Apache and Gila national forests of Arizona and New Mexico in 1998. Fourteen years later, the wild recovery was barely treading water, held down by poaching, highway collisions, and federal removals over livestock losses.

Known in tracking logs as AF1188, the Fox Mountain alpha female had been born in the wild, and so had her mate, AM1158. Together, the pair had raised a yearling and four new pups born that spring, subsisting primarily on elk across the rugged canyon country of the northwest Gila National Forest. Because the two wolves were cousins, federal officials classified the female as having low genetic value to the breeding program. In a population built from a handful of survivors, however, nearly every wild wolf in the forest was related.

Between late March and August 1, 2012, investigators tied the Fox Mountain pack to four dead cattle, three of which were killed on private ranchland outside the official recovery boundary. Field crews tried non-lethal hazing to push the pack away from the pastures. They brought in range riders to patrol the herds and dropped diversionary roadkill carcasses in the woods to keep the wolves fed while they raised their litter. None of it stopped the livestock losses. Under the recovery rules in place at the time, a wolf linked to three or more cattle kills in a single year had to be removed, and the kill order was handed to USDA Wildlife Services.

Even though the rancher had already been reimbursed $4,650 for the lost livestock, the order to shoot one of the last six wild mothers set off an immediate national uproar. Two days after issuing the permit, on August 10, the Fish and Wildlife Service backed down and canceled the shooting. The Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale, Arizona stepped in and offered to fund a live capture and house the wolf for the rest of her life. Federal trappers were sent back into the mountains with instructions to bring her in alive.

Then the wolf disappeared.

USDA Wildlife Services trappers set leg-hold traps across the northwest Gila and checked their lines every morning. Weeks went by without a single track near the sets. By early September, more than a month into the manhunt, Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Tom Buckley admitted to the Associated Press that the wolf was outsmarting the field crews: "She's one elusive girl. We're still trying."

She dodged the traplines for two full months before finally stepping into a set on October 10, 2012. Trappers loaded the wild-born mother into a crate and drove her out of New Mexico to the sanctuary in Scottsdale, where staff placed her in an off-display enclosure away from the public. Back in the Gila, her mate and yearling were left to finish raising the four six-month-old pups on their own.

While sanctuary officials reported in the weeks after her arrival that she was eating well, a wolf born in the Gila wilderness does not always settle into a fenced compound. According to a 2016 statement from the Center for Biological Diversity, the Fox Mountain alpha female died before the spring of 2016 after years of struggling to adapt to life in captivity, right around the same time federal trappers went back into the New Mexico mountains to capture one of her surviving wild sons.

The Mexican wolf population has since grown to over 240 in the wild, while nearly 150 have been illegally killed since the reintroduction began.

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Source: Associated Press (2012) / KUNM (2012) / Center for Biological Diversity (2012, 2016) / WildEarth Guardians (2012) / Wolf Conservation Center (2012) / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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