While state and local officials order the mandatory evacuation of residents and tourists in Currituck County, North Carolina, the Corolla wild horses, residing on the Currituck Outer Banks, will rely on their instincts to weather Hurricane Florence.

The filly’s birth comes after five herd members, including another foal, died in the past several months.

As the Department of the Interior considers moving the new BLM headquarters from Washington, D.C. to a Western site, advocates believe the move could have benefits for wild horses under the agency’s management.

Officials have long been concerned with how to manage the estimated 48,000 unbranded feral Navajo Nation horses residing on the 18 million-acre reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.