Oregon's Wild Horse Corral

This is a little after the fact, but there is a very important message attached to this story. Every year, Oregon's Wild Horse Corral Facility in Hines, Oregon, prepares horses from the range for adoption. Before adopted horses and burros are shipped away from the facility, they are given a final brand and health inspection by a veterinarian.  And here is the point I would like to make. Wild horses and burros are so often labeled in a negative context. First, they stress a lot of Western rangeland because of their huge numbers and voracious appetites. But secondly, these animals are often branded as being totally wild and impossible to domesticate. Not necessarily so says Tara Thissal, a photographer for a Hines, OR adoption operation which holds its annual  online wild horse adoption through July. "What's nice for me being a photographer, is I am in the pen with each animal one-on-one up close and persona. It's not a huge fan so they don't have a huge amount of space to move around in but they can be up close and personal so I get a good feel for their temperament. I can watch their movement and what is great is that 99% of these horses are comfortable being in that one-on-one circumstance with me right off the bat. These horses are coming from the wild but they are actually very adaptable in private care." For more information about the BLM corral in Burns: http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/burns...?