The Need To Preserve Horse Breeding Farms
When we save horse breeding farms from being sold to developers, we are not just saving a place for horses to reproduce. More importantly, we are saving the large tracts of land that horses need in order to thrive and not just survive. Horses need to run, rest and graze on good quality acres of ground. When you save the acres of land in horse breeding farms, you save land for all kinds of wildlife.
How Bad Is The Problem?
We're loosing open land that can help all wildlife and not just the people lucky enough to own horse breeding farms. There is so little open land left that the land on horse breeding farms is often all the native birds, mammals and plants have in order to survive. Without the land, the wildlife and birds will die. This world will be a very flavorless and dull place is there were only people in it.
We need nature and animals in order to help us become fully human. It is thought by many that the reason there are so may problems with human behavior today is that we have cut ourselves off from nature. We share this planet with millions of other kinds of life. However, we are killing off all of the other forms very rapidly. We need to act before all of what's left is gone. We can start by preserving the land on horse breeding farms, whether they are in operation as horse breeding farms or not.
The numbers of acres lost in America are about as bad as for those of rainforest lost in South America. According to the Equine Land Conservation resource, on average, America looses 250 acres of open land per hour. A quick way to save this land for our children is to preserve the land of Quarter Horse farms or Thoroughbred farms.
Eugene Dixon
One of Philadelphia's leading philanthropists was (luckily) one of its wealthiest citizens, Eugene "Fitz" Dixon. When he passed away in August of 2006, he left behind him several tremendous tracts of land in nearby Montgomery County, including a huge Thoroughbred horse breeding farm called Erdenheim. This is perhaps the most famous horse breeding farm which is currently trying to have its land preserved.
Another bit of news Fitz Dixon would have liked is that there are now emergency loans available for owners of ranches or horse breeding farms to help them keep their land. Depending on what state you live in, owners of horse breeding farms can try to get a permenant easement so the land, legally, can never be developed.
