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  • 1 week ago | thewestrn.com | Nicole Qualtieri

    I’m less than two weeks in with the new adoptees straight outta the Bureau of Land Management’s wild herds, and things are slowly coming around. In training scenarios, many professionals talk about going slow to go fast, and though I’m not a professional, it’s something I take to heart with all my animals. Today, I’m breaking down my health assessment of the fellas, where we’re at, and where we’re headed.

  • 2 weeks ago | thewestrn.com | Nicole Qualtieri

    I’m not the sort of person who takes one idea and sticks to it. I prefer to read a lot, find what works for me, and apply it. This applies to horsemanship, as well as to many other areas of life, be it hunting, fishing, or otherwise. I’d caution any reader that there are public-facing trainers and programs that inspire a lot of cult-like behavior, and as a kid who grew up in a toxic cult, it grosses me out. It’s profit-driven and ego-centered.

  • 2 weeks ago | thewestrn.com | Nicole Qualtieri

    I’ll be writing a full narrative feature about this experience for our July 1st print issue of The Westrn. Subscribe to The Westrn and you’ll receive 4 issues of our newsprint magazine, or you can pre-order a single issue for $10 here to try it out. I spent the past weekend in Livingston, Mont. attending the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse & Burro Adoption event at the fairgrounds. I told myself I was attending as media, and that I’d be leaving my trailer at home. Things happened.

  • 3 weeks ago | thewestrn.com | Nicole Qualtieri

    I’m convinced some of us are born with a deep connection to animals dug into the softest and most deeply alive cells that make up our bone marrow. For me, it’s always felt atomic. I’m not talking about anything explosive, but to a knowing that is held not in my brain, but in the makeup of my being.

  • 3 weeks ago | thewestrn.com | Nicole Qualtieri |Kestrel Keller

    Howdy folks,It’s June, which means in a few short weeks, the evening light begins to leave as summer takes hold of the country. I’ve always been a summer sorta girl. I love the strange tan lines of adventure, grown dark while running wild through hills, drinking cold beer on rivers, kicking my feet up and floating the day away on a lake.

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