E17: A horse walked into a lek ...

Out Standing in a Field

Wild horses stir the imagination and have become an iconic symbol of the West. But the animals aren't exactly from here, they were introduced by people. They're also clashing with a native bird species, the greater sage-grouse, that's under threat and rapidly losing habitat to development and invasive species. Podcasters Benjamin Zack and Leia Larsen visited the Onaqui wild horse herd in Utah's West Desert with one of the state's top sage-grouse experts to learn more.