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"Highly recommended." Read
full review from Library Journal
"El Caballo isn't a call to action. It doesn't tell anyone what
to think, and it doesn't stake out a high ground or "right" way
to manage. What it does is present a little-known controversy,
backed up with a diverse array of opinionated experts, and package
it with eye-candy footage that never lets your eyelids sag."
Read full review from the
Missoulia Independent
"El Caballo presents, with spectacular footage and a series
of interviews, the case that wild horses are native wildlife of
the American West, in the same way that elk or mule deer are,
but have received the very shortest end of the stick (that is,
systematic destruction) because they are regarded as big destructive
exotics that munch all the grass reserved for public lands cattle."
Read full review from the
Mountain Gazette
"Long considered an 'exotic' species, wild horses occupy a sort
of borderland, caught between the mythology of their origins and
the reality of their plight today. This is the subject of a new
documentary, El Caballo, by Drury Gunn Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis.
Known for their hard-hitting documentary films, Varmints
and Killing Coyote, Carr and Hawes-Davis approach wild
horses with a lighter, albeit no less powerful touch." Read
full review from High Country News
"El Caballo, a thought-provoking and beautifully filmed documentary, delves into the controversy swirling around the last few wild horses living in the western U.S.: should these animals be considered a native species and given the appropriate protections, or should they still be classified as exotic and continue to be valued less than cattle? The finely crafted documentary interviews a wide-range of experts, and offers up a rich portrait of the current state of America's wild horses." www.cduniverse.com
"A documentary film crew from Missoula, Montana made the trip
all the way to Orillia Saturday to interview Alison for an educational
film they are making about the world's dwindling number of wild
horses." Read full article
from The Packet & Times
"El Caballo is an unexpectedly original treatment of the
familiar tragedy of wild horses. It can and will be watched more
than once." Animal People
"Simultaneously an engrossing exploration of the mysteries
surrounding America's 'native vs. introduced' wild horses, as
well as a blistering indictment of the BLM's pathetic management
policy." Timothy McGettigan, PhD, Department of Sociology,
Colorado State University
"The one-hour documentary explores the evolution, history
and current federal management of wild horses on public lands
in the western United States." Read
full article from the Missoulian
“Provocative.” Read full review from Montana Magazine
"A must see." Read
full review from Natural Horse Magazine
"This multi-award-winning independent documentary lays out
the problems, conflicts and misconceptions clearly and without
bias. Interviews with the actual scientists involved in wild horse
management policy and key individuals, whose lives have been forever
impacted by their close association with wild horses, shed light
on what has for decades been a declining wildlife management issue."
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