Searching for Wild Horses in the Rocky Mountains of Western Canada

We spent the day searching for a wild horse herd in the forests of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Also, some bush craft beer tips
Great day hiking in the timber!

Wild horses in western Canada (Wildies) are found primarily in forested areas, typically lodgepole pine woodlands interspersed with pockets of dry grassland, shrubland and sedge meadows.

"The palaeontological record indicates that horses evolved in North America, but they became extinct on this continent and were absent for several thousand years until reintroduced by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. The acquisition of horses by North American First Nations, particularly Plains tribes, generally is considered to have been responsible for the spread of horses throughout the western part of the continent. The French brought horses with them when they colonized eastern Canada in the mid-1600s. The Sable Island horses - the only wild (or more correctly feral, meaning domestic animals that have reverted to a wild state) horses east of Alberta - are thought to be descendants of an unsuccessful farming settlement.

First Nations in Alberta and British Columbia had obtained horses by the mid-1700s, and some of their stock probably formed the nuclei of the first wild horse herds in western Canada. David Thompson, one of the first explorers to cross the Rocky Mountains, saw wild horses near the headwaters of the Columbia River in 1807, attributing their presence to losses from local First Nations herds. Subsequent settlement of Alberta and British Columbia was accompanied by ranching, mining and logging operations, all of which lost horses or turned animals loose deliberately, thus contributing to wild horse numbers."

For more wild horse info check the link below.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...