For the Love of Aria, inc.

In the summer of 2024, over 3,000 wild horses from the North Lander Complex and White Mountain HMAs in Wyoming were permanently removed from the range — families and bonds likely broken forever.

In January 2025, geldings from these herds were offered up for adoption through the online auction. Now, with the impending in-person and online adoptions, we’re working on raising $8,000 on behalf of the adopters supported by For the Love of Aria — a grassroots team working tirelessly behind the scenes to give these horses a soft landing and a beautiful reunion.

Your support will directly help to:

• Reunite families from North Lander and White Mountain

• Cover care costs that can reach $5,000 per horse annually — including transport, vet care, boarding, and more

• New adoptions

As a token of our appreciation, all donors who give $100 or more, will receive one 8”x10” or 10”x8” (depending on orientation) fine art print, signed by photographer Ross Vigil. You will have the ability to choose from one of eight exclusive horse prints. These are centered on my time at Crazy Horse Canyon (Thora) and in the Camarague.

Please send your receipt, full name, shipping address, and print choice to [email redacted]. Prints will be shipped within two weeks of emailed receipt.

As a reminder, all funds raised will be sent directly to For the Love of Aria to be distributed to adopters and ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE (EIN # 84-2492909).

These horses didn’t choose this path — but with your help, we can make sure they have a safe and supported next chapter!

Cover image taken of NLC wild horses by Angelique Rea of Romeo's Promise.

We are fundraising to help Mackenzie with Wild at Heart Equine Gentling with McCullough Peaks mare Juniper whose foal died in holding after gelding complications. Her adoption price went really high and Mackenzie is a horse trainer and donates so much of her time so we just want to help her recover some of the price so she can focus on her horses in training with four of them being from For the Love of Aria. We would be very grateful for anything you can do.

These funds will be used to help organizations and private adopters for horses from any HMA on the current Internet auction, March 6-13th. If we raise more than we need it will carry over to the next IA. We truly don’t know how many more chances we will have to get these mustangs out of holding so we want to help as much as possible NOW!!

We have been asked to help raise funds for mustangs from the North Lander Complex. So for the current IA happening Jan 6-13, that will be Dishpan Butte and Muskrat Basin. That was the round up I attended last year and I know without a doubt these Wyoming horses are just as deserving as the ones we helped in 2024. Honestly that round up broke my spirit in so many ways so now we want to try to help others do right by these special mustangs by bringing them home!

We are running out of time so we are hoping you all can share far and wide. Once again the funds will follow the horses❤️

Please note you can set up a reoccurring monthly donation here as well. This is vital to sustaining good rescues and we will get those monthly donations to those who take the horses.

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit For the Love of Aria, inc., and any donation will help make an impact. This is for basic care for our 5 new mustangs. Niamh, Ali, Mojave, Tina and Akari will begin their gentling next week and we are so excited to get to know them. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

More information about For the Love of Aria, inc.: For the Love of Aria is committed to giving mustangs a solid foundation of care and training as they navigate a successful transition away from the wild. Advocating for these at-risk horses will remain our priority.

For the Love of Aria has a chance to purchase a 1000 acre, move in, Mustang sanctuary, ready property just a few properties down from our facility. But we need your help so I know this is a long shot and we don’t have a lot of time but maybe if we prove to others you all believe in us we can get more traction. It never hurts to try, right? So here is to imagining horses that truly need sanctuary on this magnificent property. I will share pictures of the property soon And to clarify, our goal would still be to give horses a voice and a choice. So we would still gentle and train those that are willing and truly save the sanctuary spots for those that need it! More on that later I promise!

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit For the Love of Aria, Inc. and any donation will help make an impact. 39 wild horses from the beloved McCullough Peaks in WY were rounded-up by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management), including nursing foals and older horses that will not do well in captivity. I'm fundraising to help efforts to get them into safe sanctuaries and hopefully keep the herd together. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me!

This is a letter sent by The American Wild Horse Campaign trying to halt this round-up, which violated the law: https://americanwildhorse.org/media/legal-letter-halt-mccullough-peaks-roundup

This is another legal letter protesting the capture of nursing foals:

https://americanwildhorse.org/media/advocacy-coalition-blasts-blm-capturing-wild-foals-wyoming-and-removing-them-their-mothers

Here is a link to a very informative article on what happened with this round-up: https://wyldroseimages.zenfoliosite.com/wild-horse-blog/bp/mccullough-peaks-2023-bait-trap--removal-final-tho?fbclid=IwAR3P9NHikI2R7cRq5_FacRz-QBdgF1m5a8JslQK6tXkSvGvVFySNCvi095M

The core issue here is the battle against the cattle industry lobby -the government keeps making room for more cattle at the expense of wild horses, who have only a fraction of public grazing land. In addition, the BLM's outdated, anti-conservation, archaic methods are not sustainable and will not result in the protection of our beloved mustangs.

For the Love of Aria is committed to giving mustangs a solid foundation of care and training as they navigate a successful transition away from the wild. Advocating for these at-risk horses will remain our priority. Visit website to learn more about the important work they do: https://www.fortheloveofaria.org/