"Such stately beauty. I can't even imagine the landscape without them. What a dull place it would be." - Mary Hone
"To encounter a band of wild horses on a fenceless stretch of prairie is something priceless, of course." - Chad Hansen
"Wild places and wild species only survive because of their defenders. Let's all keep defending!" ~ Erik Molvar
"We are all links in a chain for helping our wild ones." ~ Wild Horse Education
"Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: 'I hope something will happen but I'm not going to do anything about it.' This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement." –
Dr. Jane Goodall
"To encounter a band of wild horses on a fenceless stretch of prairie is something priceless, of course." - Chad Hansen
"Wild places and wild species only survive because of their defenders. Let's all keep defending!" ~ Erik Molvar
"We are all links in a chain for helping our wild ones." ~ Wild Horse Education
"Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: 'I hope something will happen but I'm not going to do anything about it.' This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement." –
Dr. Jane Goodall
Salt Wells Creek HA, Wyoming
Wild Horses Need Our Voices!
Save Our Wild Horses is here to offer helpful tips and educational information to help you with wild horse advocacy. There is no donate button on this site because I believe in advocacy from the heart, and work tirelessly and without pay to bring awareness to America's wild horses and burros. Any funds raised from the sales of t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc are all in turn donated to organizations who work tirelessly to protect our wild horses, burros, wildlife, and public lands, or to pay for this website, or towards directly mailing information to legislators in DC.
The issues facing our wild horses & burros today are sadly numerous: losing their homes on our public lands to livestock grazing, mining, natural gas, and oil, being rounded up by helicopters and separated from family band members forever, to living in long-term holding pens for the rest of their lives, being adopted through a faulty Bureau of Land Management program and dumped at auction pens after a year, and being bought by kill buyers and shipped to slaughter houses in Canada and Mexico. Our government and the Bureau of Land Management can do better than this, they can protect our wild horses better than this.
It is up to us to remind them to do so before it's too late.
Save Our Wild Horses is here to offer helpful tips and educational information to help you with wild horse advocacy. There is no donate button on this site because I believe in advocacy from the heart, and work tirelessly and without pay to bring awareness to America's wild horses and burros. Any funds raised from the sales of t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc are all in turn donated to organizations who work tirelessly to protect our wild horses, burros, wildlife, and public lands, or to pay for this website, or towards directly mailing information to legislators in DC.
The issues facing our wild horses & burros today are sadly numerous: losing their homes on our public lands to livestock grazing, mining, natural gas, and oil, being rounded up by helicopters and separated from family band members forever, to living in long-term holding pens for the rest of their lives, being adopted through a faulty Bureau of Land Management program and dumped at auction pens after a year, and being bought by kill buyers and shipped to slaughter houses in Canada and Mexico. Our government and the Bureau of Land Management can do better than this, they can protect our wild horses better than this.
It is up to us to remind them to do so before it's too late.
The best two things you can do to help America's wild horses and burros stay on OUR public lands? Spread the word about their plight to everyone you know, and contact your US Representative and both US Senators and ask them to Save Our Wild Horses.
What can you do today? Call and email your US Representative and both US Senators with this message:
"I am calling (or writing) today to ask for an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups until Congress can investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, violations of the Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program (CAWP), systematic destruction of our wild herds and public lands, and their massive mismanagement of the Wild Horse & Burro Program."
What can you do today? Call and email your US Representative and both US Senators with this message:
"I am calling (or writing) today to ask for an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups until Congress can investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, violations of the Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program (CAWP), systematic destruction of our wild herds and public lands, and their massive mismanagement of the Wild Horse & Burro Program."
The SAFE Act was reintroduced into Congress for the 2025-26 legislative session. For more information on these past legislative issues, and the SAFE Act for all American equines both domestic and wild, click here or on any of the graphics below. As soon as the other bills are reintroduced in Congress, I will update this page.
Five Myths About Wild Horses in the West
Despite Bureau of Land Management claims, wild horses DO NOT damage the ecosystems of the American West
Chad Hanson • April 21, 2023
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Despite Bureau of Land Management claims, wild horses DO NOT damage the ecosystems of the American West
Chad Hanson • April 21, 2023
Click here to read more.
Resources and Ways You Can Help:
Finding Wild Horses
Click here for information on where to find wild horses & burros in the US and around the world
Wild Horses Need Our Voices
Click here for Action Items and ways you can help make your voices heard for America's wild horses & burro
Recommended Films & Books
Click here for a list of great books, films, and music dedicated to wild horses & burros
Finding Helicopter & Holding Pen Contracts
Postcards & where
to get them
Contacting Senators and Representatives in Congress
Click here for instructions on how to contact your Senators & Representatives (Congress) & the Natural Resource Committee list
Wild Horse Summit 2025
Save Our Wild Horses, Chasing Horses Wild Horses Advocates, and the Wild Narrative Project hosted a virtual online educational summit from January 30 - February 3, 2025! Expert and advocate speakers discussed wild horses & burros, public lands, and what you can do to help. To watch the presentation videos, please go to the Save Our Wild Horses YouTube channel here!
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Save Our Wild Horses
DC Conference in 2023
Just a handy little reminder for the BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program that this is still the law of the land...
§ 4710.5 Closure to livestock grazing.
(a) If necessary to provide habitat for wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros from disease, harassment or injury, the authorized officer may close appropriate areas of the public lands to grazing use by all or a particular kind of livestock.
(b) All public lands inhabited by wild horses or burros shall be closed to grazing under permit or lease by domestic horses and burros.
(c) Closure may be temporary or permanent. After appropriate public consultation, a Notice of Closure shall be issued to affected and interested parties.
§ 4710.6 Removal of unauthorized livestock in or near areas occupied by wild horses or burros.
The authorized officer may establish conditions for the removal of unauthorized livestock from public lands adjacent to or within areas occupied by wild horses or burros to prevent undue harassment of the wild horses or burros. Liability and compensation for damages from unauthorized use shall be determined in accordance with subpart 4150 of this title.
§ 4710.5 Closure to livestock grazing.
(a) If necessary to provide habitat for wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros from disease, harassment or injury, the authorized officer may close appropriate areas of the public lands to grazing use by all or a particular kind of livestock.
(b) All public lands inhabited by wild horses or burros shall be closed to grazing under permit or lease by domestic horses and burros.
(c) Closure may be temporary or permanent. After appropriate public consultation, a Notice of Closure shall be issued to affected and interested parties.
§ 4710.6 Removal of unauthorized livestock in or near areas occupied by wild horses or burros.
The authorized officer may establish conditions for the removal of unauthorized livestock from public lands adjacent to or within areas occupied by wild horses or burros to prevent undue harassment of the wild horses or burros. Liability and compensation for damages from unauthorized use shall be determined in accordance with subpart 4150 of this title.
Wild Horses Need Our Voices!
We can make a difference
We can make a difference
Is there anything else I can do?
YES!! Please ask as many people as you can to join Save Our Wild Horses! The more postcards, letters, emails, faxes and phone calls we can do will always help. We need to let our congressional members, the people who were voted in to office by us, know that the matter of our wild horses is extremely important to the majority of Americans. If we can get thousands of letters or postcards mailed in, then we will be taken more seriously. If we can get newspapers and news channels to write articles and air news segments, then more people will get involved and we can make real change! Are you a teacher or do you know one? Get classrooms and students involved here! And please visit the following website to learn more valuable information regarding our wild horses & burros and public lands:
Photo and graphic courtesy of Sandy Sharkey Photography
Show your love and support of wild horses with bumper stickers and more!
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