A decade ago, Darrell Glover was placed in handcuffs and arrested in southern Alberta for protesting a government-sanctioned cull of wild horses. He had camped alongside dozens of other people in the cold to intimidate trappers who would go on to sell the free-roaming animals at auction – sentencing many to slaughter. Glover, sitting on a log in the very same forest this summer, says he remembers the protest as a “great resistance” that helped stop the killing of dozens of feral horses near Sundre, Alta. But the resistance is far from over, he stressed, as the provincial government continues to threaten the horses’ very existence. The carefree creatures are difficult to spot as they roam the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. But Glover, having been around them for years, knows where to look. He calls the horses by name – Stirling, Maverick, One-Eyed Jack – as they graze in fields, gallop through the trees or play fight.