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First gentleman Marlon Reis takes part in the Breck Film Festival panel on wild horses<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

First Gentleman Marlon Reis speaks during a panel at the Breck Film Festival on Sunday, September 18, 2022. The panel followed the screening of the documentary \u2018Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West\u2019, which focuses on roundups of horses throughout the West.<\/strong>
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Governor Jared Polis and First Gentleman Marlon Reis traveled to Breckenridge on Sunday, September 18 to attend the world premiere of \u201cWild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West\u201d at the Breck Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documentary, centered on roundups of wild horses across the American West, was partially filmed around the Sand Wash Basin horse collection, a region of Moffat County in the northwest corner of Colorado. Just over a year ago, 608 horses were rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management in the basin, leaving only 163 feral horses in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reis was a strong supporter of wild horses staying on public lands during roundups, and he said Sunday he has long believed that art can spark conversation or reach people in ways that traditional politics or Political conversations can\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI noticed several times in the movie the reference to the observers (of the roundups) having to be brought together, and then people having to control their emotions,\u201d Reis said. \u201cIt was in stark contrast (to) the detachment that is clearly required of people conducting these operations on behalf of the BLM. I said it from day one\u2026since I had the good fortune to be the first gentleman here in Colorado to hold this position: once you commit an act of violence, the next time it\u2019s is a little easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reis also praised wild horse advocates in the West, who repeatedly reached out to the governor\u2019s office during the Colorado roundups. He said that at the time, it was difficult to gather information about the roundup process from various entities, and this was often due to a lack of communication between the parties involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we are looking at right now is the development of a state-sponsored non-profit organization that would provide a steady source of state and volunteer organization personnel to assist volunteers, because c \u201cIt\u2019s the perfect example of a situation where a federal agency \u2014 with the kind of budget BLM has \u2014 shouldn\u2019t rely solely on volunteers to carry out its mission,\u201d Reis said. I think it\u2019s just bad governance. As we heard (in the movie), the number of wild horses losing their freedom (is increasing). We really need to focus on the fact that they have the freedom, but they don\u2019t have it afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashley Avis, who directed the film, said that while the documentary is primarily about wild horses, it\u2019s ultimately about protecting the great wild world on public lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going out and you\u2019re with your family and want to experience the American West, you probably don\u2019t want to go camping and see the cattle grazing or see dozens of cattle in the forest instead of wild horses \u2013 au place of other beautiful natural animals,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I think it\u2019s all on the line. And this year we\u2019re reaching a tipping point where there might already be more wild horses in the detention only free on public lands, which is only a travesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avis said she hopes the public takes away that advocacy is what will keep wild horses on public lands. Western Watersheds Project executive director Erik Molvar, who featured in the film, said he believed the office should be reformed to protect wild horses and other living creatures on public lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we need to flip that paradigm and get the Bureau of Land Management to start managing public lands for abundant and thriving natural ecosystems for abundant wildlife, and for public recreation and enjoyment,\u201d Molvar said. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West\u201d had its world premiere on Sunday, September 18 at the Breck Film Festival. Director Ashley Avis and others spoke with first gentleman Marlon Reis about defending wild horses after the screening.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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