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Quotes of the Month:

"Such stately beauty. I can't even imagine the landscape without them. What a dull place it would be."  - Mary Hone

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"To encounter a band of wild horses on a fenceless stretch of prairie is something priceless, of course." - Chad Hansen
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#ButImJustOnePersonSaid300MillionPeople - Sandy Sharkey

'Ego has no place in wild horse advocacy and must be set aside; it's the wild horses and burros who suffer because of it'  - SOWH



Save Our Wild Horses is here to offer helpful tips and educational information to help you with wild horse advocacy.  We are a group of grassroots people who work tirelessly and without pay, we do not take or accept donations.   Any funds raised from the sales of our ​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.
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The issues facing our wild horses today are sadly numerous: losing their homes on our public lands to livestock, mining, and oil refineries, 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, 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's up to us to remind them to do so before it's too late. 
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The McCullough Peaks wild horses need your voices!

Join us Monday, Jan. 16, at 8pm EST / 5pm PST for a Zoom meeting to discuss how to submit Public Comments on the Bureau of Land Management's Scoping Letter to remove over half the herd at McCullough Peaks in WY.  

To join the meeting please email: heather@saveourwildhorses.net


We will provide suggested comments and fact source links for your Public Comment on the Scoping Letter to the BLM.   Emotional, angry, or non-relevant Public Comments will be ignored by the Bureau of Land Management and, in fact, may actually hurt our cause.  We must be seen as knowledgeable, mature, and calm advocates. 

After you attend our Zoom meeting on Monday, January 16, you can make your 
Public Comment here.  Make your voice count!  Check back here often for more information, tips on comments, and links to sources you can use in your Public Comment.

​To view the slideshow presentation from Monday's Zoom meeting, go here.


The National Park Service wants to greatly reduce or eliminate altogether the wild horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota

Please go to the ​TRNP Wild Horses page for information on the National Park Services 'Livestock Plan' to reduce or eliminate the Theodore Roosevelt National Park wild horses.  Public Comments are due by January 31st.  From the chwha.org website: 

There are several different ways that we can advocate for these horses, but the #1 way to make sure you are working to help these horses is to send your comment to the park no later than January 31, 2023.  Your comment ONLY counts if you PERSONALLY submit your comment through this link: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/LP or if you mail in your comment and supporting documentation to:
Superintendent
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
PO Box 7
Medora, ND 58645


Keep your comments fact and science based and back them up with relevant information and sources, all of which can be found on the chwha.org website here.  Emotional, angry, or non-relevant Public Comments will be ignored by the National Park Service.  You can make your Public Comment here.  Make your voice count!

Wild Horses Public Lands
These new graphics explain how forage is allocated in herd management areas that are subject to wild horse and burro roundups.  Visit the new website to view, download, print, and share the graphics with your Rep, Senators, and followers.
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Calico Complex Roundup begins September 10th
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South Steens HMA roundup begins September 10th
Fact Sheet Flyer
This is a condensed version of our Fact Sheet that you can download, print out, and hand out to the public at rallies, farmers markets, tabling events, etc.  When meeting with or talking to your Rep or Senators offices/staff, choose 2-3 topics from the Fact Sheet to discuss with them. To download click on Download File below.
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Click here to go to our Lobbying 101 page for tips on how to ask for a meeting with your legislator

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There are just four wild horse herd management areas that do not have grazing allotments for livestock within them.  Here is a interactive map put together by Western Watersheds Project showing all the grazing allotments across the West where you can zoom in and see who the grazing permits belong to: ​​HMA Domestic Grazing

The 2nd Annual Save Our Wild Horses DC Conference is scheduled for
April 22-26, 2023
at Yotel DC, Washington DC

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​Click here for information on the upcoming
​2023 Save Our Wild Horses DC Conference
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Click here to go to our new YouTube channel

Show your love and support of wild horses with bumper stickers and more!

Check out our new collection of bumper stickers, bumper magnets, and banners - all proceeds are donated to organizations, rescues, and sanctuaries who work hard every day to help save our public lands and wild horses & burros.  A couple examples below with over 20 different ones to choose from here
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The only way to ultimately protect our wild horses (mustangs) and burros is if Congress requires the Bureau of Land Management to follow the existing law to protect wild horses & burros, enacts new legislation to further protect herd areas, and either replaces the Bureau of Land Management as the herd caretakers or requires the BLM to use funding for on-range management planning before roundups and PZP use.  Contact your Representative (member of the House) and both Senators today.  Be factual and use the messages below in your letter, email, fax, or phone call:

The Messages:
Protect our wild horses by requiring the Bureau of Land Management to:
  • Create and abide by Herd Management Area Plans (HMAP's) which are required by law
  • To stop the cruel and abusive helicopter roundups by using funding towards on-range management
  • To protect our public lands and wildlife by removing livestock, especially within wild horse and burro herd areas
  • To protect our domestic & wild horses from being shipped to slaughter in the US or over our borders by sponsoring the SAFE Act HR 3355 (House) and S 2732 (Senate) (bill numbers to change in 2023)

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​Postcards & where
to get them

Click here for information on where to get postcards and what you can handwrite on them to get our message across
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How to contact the President, Secretary Haaland, BLM Director

Click here for instructions on how to contact President Biden and the Department of the Interior
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Contacting Senators and members of Congress

Click here for instructions on how to contact your Senators & Members of Congress
(House of Representatives)

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Take Action Now

Click here for a list of essential legislators to mail letters to 

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How to contact the USFS 

Click here for instructions on how to contact the United States Forest Service 
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Brochures, banners, bumper stickers, graphics

Click here for helpful tools

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Messages for the President, DOI, Senators,  House of Reps, USFS

Click here for message ideas to write to the President, Secretary Haaland at the DOI, Senators, and Members of the House of Representatives, and USFS  
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Contact TV stations and newspapers

Tips to write op-eds and more

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Photos showing livestock damage to wild horse & burro herd areas

Click here for to see photographs showing livestock damage to wild horse & burro herd areas and our public lands

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Wild Horses in the News

Click here to see the positive steps being taken to protect our wild horses, burros, and public lands
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Use FaxZero to send 5 free single page faxes per day to your Reps & Senators

Click here to use FaxZero
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Teachers,
you and your students can help the wild horses!

Click here. Hearing from schoolchildren is what made Velma Johnson's wild horse letter writing campaign in 1959 so successful!

We can make a difference 
​but to do that we all need to unite and make our voices heard!

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!  Find newspaper contacts here: https://jenniferrobin.gallery/news-media-contact/ Are you a teacher or do you know one?  Get classrooms and students involved here!  And please visit wildhorseeducation.org or publichorses.com to learn so much more valuable information regarding our wild horses & burros and public lands.  Another new organization whose founder has years of experience with legal filings against the BLM is Oregon Wild Horse Organization
All photography on this site courtesy of and copyrighted by Heather Hellyer Photography.  Any reproduction is prohibited unless specifically noted.  Please go to www.heatherhellyerphotography.com to find these prints and more.  
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  • Save Our Wild Horses
  • McCullough Peaks HMA
  • TRNP Wild Horses
  • Lobbying 101 Steps
  • Action Items
    • SOWH Presentation
  • Photos Showing Livestock Damage
  • Brochures and Graphics
  • Finding Wild Horses & Burros
    • Arizona Wild Horses & Burros
    • California Wild Horses
    • Colorado Wild Horses
    • Georgia Wild Horses
    • Idaho Wild Horses
    • Maryland/Virginia Wild Horses
    • Montana Wild Horses
    • North Carolina Wild Horses
    • North Dakota Wild Horses
    • Oregon Wild Horses
    • South Dakota Wild Burros
    • Utah Wild Horses
    • Wyoming Wild Horses
  • Wild Horses in the News
  • Current Legislation Items
  • 2023 DC Conference
    • 2022 DC Conference >
      • Speaker Bios
  • Wild Horse Photos & Coloring Pages
  • Take Action Now
  • Postcards
  • Teachers & Students
  • President, DOI, BLM Contact Info
    • Messages to the President, Senators, & USFS
  • Senators & Reps Contact Info
    • Alabama
    • Alaska
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    • Arkansas
    • California
    • Colorado
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