Natural History Wanderings

The L.A.Times reports

Several wild horse carcasses have been discovered this spring on the southwestern shores of Mono Lake, after California endured a cold and snowy winter.

As multiple feet of snow finally melted around one of Mono County’s greatest attractions, U.S. Forest Service officials and volunteers found remnants of a large presence of wild horses — ones that typically range much farther east — that wintered around Mono Lake and left behind massive amounts of manure, ecological damage and in some cases, decaying skeletons.
— Read on www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-19/dead-horses-mono-lake-california-cold-winter-snow