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Wild Horse Fire Brigade

A collection of 62 posts

Wildfire, Wild Horses and the High Cost of Fighting Fire Instead of Fuel

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Wildfire, Wild Horses and the High Cost of Fighting Fire Instead of Fuel

Wild Horse Fire Brigade founder William E. Simpson II argues that America spends too much fighting wildfires after they ignite—and overlooks wild horses as a potential tool for reducing dangerous fuels.

Restoring Biodiversity - 8/25/2026

Restoring Biodiversity - 8/25/2026

Elk in Texas raise a basic question about how law shapes conservation. Trail cameras in Idaho show what connected habitat looks like when wildlife can move freely. Cattle numbers reveal how economics and stewardship remain inseparable. And more...

The Fires of Corruption

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The Fires of Corruption

Is America fighting wildfires instead of preventing them? This opinion piece argues that decades of suppression-focused budgets, prescribed burning, and wild horse removals have contributed to worsening wildfire conditions, and calls for a new approach

Initial Attack Failure: The East Evans Creek Fire and a Familiar Pattern

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Initial Attack Failure: The East Evans Creek Fire and a Familiar Pattern

With wildfire, the conversation is shifting from suppression to prevention. This opinion piece argues that reducing fine fuels before ignition—rather than relying solely on firefighting after the fact—may be one of the most important challenges facing land managers in the American West.

Exigent Public Health Crisis from Wildfire Smoke — Immediate, Cost-Negative Remedy via Targeted Relocation of Excess Wild Horses under Existing Federal Authorities

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Exigent Public Health Crisis from Wildfire Smoke — Immediate, Cost-Negative Remedy via Targeted Relocation of Excess Wild Horses under Existing Federal Authorities

A new executive briefing argues that toxic wildfire smoke has become a national public health emergency and proposes an unconventional solution: using excess federally managed wild horses to reduce wildfire fuels in remote forests.

When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

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When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

Siskiyou County's wildfire crisis raises a fundamental question: what happens when a landscape loses the large herbivores that once helped shape it?

How Donkeys Help Prevent Wildfires in Spain

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How Donkeys Help Prevent Wildfires in Spain

Meet Catalonia's newest and furriest firefighters: a herd of 62 rescue donkeys.

Restoring Biodiversity - 7/21/2026

Restoring Biodiversity - 7/21/2026

Federal and state officials are dramatically expanding sterile-fly releases. Feral pigs are tearing up America. Opposing wild horse rewilding is recklessly negligent. And more..

Wildfire management via horses

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The 2026 Ranger Road Fire Proves Livestock Grazing Alone Has Failed — And Opposing Wild Horse Rewilding in Unsuitable Lands Is Recklessly Negligent

The 2026 Ranger Road Fire has reignited debate over how America manages wildfire fuels.

Not Your Ordinary Horse Ranchers

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Not Your Ordinary Horse Ranchers

Michelle Gough and William E. Simpson II are two researchers who have chosen an unusually rugged life in the wilderness to study a free-roaming herd of heritage wild horses along the California-Oregon border.

America Is Repeating Brazil’s Amazon Disaster — While Systematically Destroying the Only Animal That Could Prevent It

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America Is Repeating Brazil’s Amazon Disaster — While Systematically Destroying the Only Animal That Could Prevent It

This post argues that decades of livestock-focused land management and wildfire suppression have degraded public lands, while wild horses may offer a natural, low-cost solution for reducing fuels, restoring ecosystems, and improving resilience.

Why Wild Horse Fire Brigade Stands Alone Among Wild Horse Nonprofits

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Why Wild Horse Fire Brigade Stands Alone Among Wild Horse Nonprofits

Wild Horse Fire Brigade is advancing a different vision for conservation—one centered on preserving free-roaming, naturally breeding wild horse herds.

wild horse eating grass on a roadside

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C.S. Lewis's 1944 Lecture "The Inner Ring."

The Wild Horse Fire Brigade offers a natural solution: horses graze the grass and brush on vacant wild-lands, and manage fuels that cattle avoid and that fuel extreme fires, creating safer landscapes without costly mechanical treatments or prescribed burns that often release even more toxins.

Wild Horse Grift song - thumbnail of a Youtube video

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Wild Horse Grift

The song "Wild Horse Grift" is a powerful, truth-telling country-western style track that exposes the exploitation of America's wild horses by certain large "advocacy" nonprofits.

The Compelling Case: North American Wild Horses Survived The Ice Age In Splinter Populations And Are More “American” Than Bison, Elk, Or Deer

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The Compelling Case: North American Wild Horses Survived The Ice Age In Splinter Populations And Are More “American” Than Bison, Elk, Or Deer

While most large mammals disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene (~11,000 years ago), multiple lines of evidence now prove that splinter populations of caballine horses survived the Ice Age and persisted into the Holocene in North America.

Wildfire (and RxFire) Smoke More Toxic Than Previously Believed

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Wildfire (and RxFire) Smoke More Toxic Than Previously Believed

This is a game-changing moment for wildfire prevention and public safety.

Restoring Biodiversity - 4/7/2026

Restoring Biodiversity - 4/7/2026

Screwworm and the role of the USDA’s “tick riders." True conservation requires responsibility, not neglect. Wolves and moose at Pitchstone Waters. And more...

William Simpson: Proposal Aims to Cut Costs and Improve Wild Horse Welfare

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William Simpson: Proposal Aims to Cut Costs and Improve Wild Horse Welfare

William Simpson Proposes Wild Horse Plan to Reduce Wildfire Risk. Cutting Costs, While Saving American Lives.