We hope to partner with more cities and towns this coming year to remind our communities of this important issue for horses and humans everywhere! This campaign is a simple reminder of laws that already exist protecting our working horses and private equestrians on the public roadways. These laws are in practically every city and town and village in America. This is not a campaign to create new laws and regulations but to simply remind our communities to please obey the laws that exist. The “Share the Road” program envisions reminding the public of the importance of safety of horses on roads, which will benefit recreational riders and drivers, commercial carriage drivers, farmers who must use the roads to access their fields with their horses, and the public at large. Horse people are finding it ever more difficult to access horse trails without utilizing roadways for at least part of the ride. By facilitating the presence of horses in developed areas (and on the road), we reconnect the public with horses. There is plenty of room for horses in our society—they have been with us always—but the long-term sustainability of equestrianism requires rethinking horses’ relationship to development to imagine an “urban renewal” of horses. BSE is excited go partner with the Granby Regional Horse Council(granbyregionalhorse.org) in bringing this important event and message for horse people and their communities anywhere around the country and most especially for the many horse people in Massachusetts. Responsibly reintroducing horses to the roads and to developed areas builds community cooperation in conservation efforts and equestrian issues. "The way forward is sometimes found by looking backward." Let's stop our busy, speeding lives for a moment, allow the horses our society so hastily and mistakenly left behind to catch up and walk by our side, and, in partnership and share life's road together. Join us! — at Blue Star Equiculture and
The Granby Regional Horse Council
Contact:
Pamela Rickenbach
Executive Director
Blue Star Equiculture
(413) 289-9787
[email protected]
Jose Rubero
Granby Regional Horse Council Member
(413) 847-0301
[email protected]
granbyregionalhorse.org
