Lone wild horse on Wildhorse Island gets company

He has - or at least had - a name, the last wild horse on Wildhorse Island, though no one remembers it. He also had ribs, and they were visible through his hide. It wasn't due to lack of food. "He's getting up there in years," explains Jerry Sawyer, who manages the seven state parks located around Flathead Lake for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. But it was a mild winter in northwestern Montana. The horse may have survived, Sawyer says. If he did, he's got a partner, a wild mustang transplanted to the island in December, and three to four more on the way later this spring. What's an island called Wildhorse, after all, without wild horses? The last horse standing on Flathead's largest island was the final surviving member of a group transplanted to the primitive state park in 1993...more