HEBER CITY, Utah — Jake Harvath, a 25-year-old horse trainer from Utah, recently returned from an extraordinary journey: a 6,000-mile trek on horseback across 25 states to raise awareness about the potential of wild mustangs. Harvath’s Year of the Mustang expedition aimed to dispel misconceptions about these often-overlooked animals and inspire more adoptions from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
“The mission was to put a spotlight on wild horses,” Harvath said. “There’s a stigma in the horse community that mustangs can’t be trained to be good working horses, and that simply hasn’t been my experience.”…