A household band of untamed horses naturally maintains a firebreak that protects an old-growth forest and the wildlife that stay there.
On Saturday Dec. third at 10:00 AM, EQUUS Movie & Arts Pageant will current a TED-like speak about Wild Horse Fireplace Brigade on the historic Guild Theater in Sacramento California.
Wild horse ethologist and researcher William E. Simpson II will discuss how wild horses affordably handle wildfire fuels, make bushes extra hearth resilient, and the way forest ecosystems, watersheds, and wildlife profit from the presence of those native keystone herbivores.
William has lived amongst and studied free roaming wild horses within the wilderness mountains on the California-Oregon border for the previous 8 years constantly.
Simpson has logged over 15,000 hours of shut observational examine, a way pioneered by Dr. Jane Goodall throughout her Nineteen Sixties examine of the Apes in Gombe, Africa, which Simpson calls the ‘Goodall Methodology‘ in honor of Dr. Goodall.
A few of Simpson’s analysis has been revealed in print and in on-line journals, similar to ReWilding Europe’s wildfire centered journal GrazeLIFE: https://grazelife.com/weblog/wild-horse-fire-brigade-lessons-in-rebalancing-north-american-ecosystems-by-rewilding-equids/.
Just lately, NPR nationwide featured a narrative by reporter Stephanie O’Neill, about Simpson’s analysis on air (and podcast) and in print to its viewers of 46 million: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/30/1131042723/preventing-wildfire-with-the-wild-horse-fire-brigade.
The discuss begins at 10:00 AM on the Guild Theater in Sacramento California and can final about 45 minutes, adopted by a panel Q&A dialogue session with board members from Wild Horse Fireplace Brigade, a California-based 501(c)3 all-volunteer nonprofit group.
The group from Wild Horse Fireplace Brigade hopes to see you there!
William Simpson was the native advisor to CALFIRE through the lethal 38,000-acre 2018 Klamathon Fireplace. Simpson was on the hearth line for 9 days aiding CALFIRE and in addition finding out the results of the wildfire grazing by the native wild horses on the habits of wildfire and its development, in addition to the advantages offered to firefighters through the pure firebreaks created and maintained by the wild horses.
Please go to www.wildhorsefirebrigade.org.
