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Extensive pens are set up for holding facilities.
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Elaborate holding pens are constructed for safe and efficient sorting of the wild horses.
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Hay and water are provided for the sorted horses in the holding pens.
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Hay truck
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Water truck loading water.
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Sorting wild horses with a gate in the holding pen. Wranglers pay close attention.
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Dave Cattoor and his pilot horse Shorty watching the helicopter herd a group of horses to the capture corrals.
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Helicopter herding the horses into the wings of the capture facility.
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Two helicopters shorten the gather and cause less stress on the wild horses by shortening the distances they have to travel.
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Even small foals can keep up with the band.
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Horses that can't keep up with the band are retrieved and cared for by wranglers horseback.
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Personal care is given to any horse that needs it.
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Fueling a helicopter
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Winter Gather
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Into the wings of the corral.
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Gathering burros horseback.
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Helicopter gather
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Helicopter herds a group of horses to the capture corrals.
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Helicopter herds a group of horses to the capture corrals.
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Pilot horse leads the other horses to the corral.
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helicopter bringing in wild horses
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helicopter bringing in wild horses
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wrangler bringing in a foal
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gather in Utah
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gather in Wyoming
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Nevada sunset
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wranglers take a watermelon break
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stallions peacefully eating in our temporary holding facility
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hay is fed twice a day
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wranglers on their saddle horses
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wrangler bonding with a foal
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running to close the gates
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a rainbow in Butte Valley, Nevada
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