Stone Cabin continued
32 WHEMAGAZINE MAY 2018
The horses of Stone Cabin comprise bays, chestnuts, sorrels, blacks and the "Stone Cabin Gray." The Thoroughbred body type is prevalent at Stone Cabin (long necks, slim bodies and high withers.) and may be a living reminder of the "Longstreet" legend of the "steeldust gray won in a poker game" turned lose in the valley.
In wet years the mountains can receive as much as 16 inches of precipitation (rain/snow) and the valley floor about 6 or 7. Drought is a factor in the West and is common 4 out of every ten years. In drought years the valley floor can receive around 4 inches of precipitation.
Wild horses can travel vast distances from forage to water each day. However our public lands are, in truth, not vast open tracks but often cut with barbed wire fencing for livestock, fire rehabilitation and mining. Stone Cabin and Saulsbury are also cut by a major highway.
Like much of our public land water improvement projects should be implemented to benefit wildlife, wild horses and to keep populations distributed to reduce conflict with livestock producers.