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BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
LEWISBERRY Blonde and
petite, the 12-year-old leaned
against a feedrack at the Wild
Horse and Burro Center near
Lewisberry, never taking her quiet
eyes from the cluster of horses
cautiously moving about the pen.
Already, Chris CorMe had made
her choice. It would be the young
horse with the big white blaze over
the nose, in stark contrast to the
rust-hued coat.
Chris lives just up the road from
the Bureau of Land Management’s
Wild Horse and Burro Center,
operated by Frank and Doris
Goodlander. Last year, Chris’
mother, Betty Trout, had selected
a horse with strikingly similar
features. When she learned, last
"Wildfire" is wild about people. The former wild horse begs
for attention as Wild Horse and Burro Center operator Frank
Goodlander chats with visitors inquiring about adoption.
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Friday morning, that the first
horse shipment of the year had
arrived, Mrs. Trout obtained
permission for Chris to leave
school early, in order to have one
of the first choices from the new
arrivals.
The 50 horses shyly investigating
the pens had been rounded up from
the barren public ragelands of
Nevada. For the three previous
days, they’d been traveling across
the country in a shiny, double
deckered tractor-trailer rig, and
rested, fed and watered
periodically through each day as
the law mandates. Even while
Chris watched “her” 10-month-old
weanling the hauler had donned his
wide-brimmed cowboy hat after
catching a couple of hours rest and
headed back out the road west.
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She hadn’t settled on a name yet.
That could wait until later, after
she’d gotten to know the animal’s
personality better. Of one thing she
was certain. Hers was the frien
dliest in the lot.
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“I picked mine, last May,
because he was the friendliest of
that shipment,” relates Betty
Trout. “His name is R. 8., but
everyone around here just calls
him Mr. Friendly.”
R.B. was 13-months-old when he
was adopted. The gelding is one of
about 20 horses boarded year
round at the Center’s facilities.
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Chris Corkle picks out the wild horse she wilt adopt. She selects friendly equine and
one that has similar facial markings to one that her mother adopted a year ago.
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“In no time at all, we could
handle him,” she adds. “He’ll be
broken this summer; already he’s
halter broken and I can lunge him.
We practically live here on
weekends now and help out with
whatever we can.”
While small groups of visitors
view the pens of available adop
tees, it soon becomes evident
which animals are new arrivals
and which ones are the old-timers
at the Center.
Newly-arrived horses shy away
from strangers, hovering a bit
nervously back away from the
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racks stuffed full of hay, waiting to
nibble until after onlookers move
on down the long feed alley to other
pens.
By contrast, horses that have
been at the center for a few weeks
either ignore or seem to outright
enjoy the company, busy instead
burying their noses in the ever
available supplies of hay that
constitute their diets.
Studying the horses nearby is
Sandy McLaughlin, R 2 Felton,
York County. The mare Mrs.
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