Help Us Stop Wild Horse Roundups

In 2022, over 21,000 wild horses were rounded up and removed from our public lands. Chased by helicopters for miles over rough terrain into traps and pushed into trailers to be shipped to holding pens, wild horse family bands were separated from each other...forever.

Once separated, the bonded pairs of stallions and mares call out to each other for hours. Foals huddle in a corner wondering where their moms are, the panels separating them covered in netting so they can't see out.

After the roundup at Cedar Mountain, UT last year, I watched a beautiful roan stallion try to stand as close to his mare as he could even though she was across a walkway in another pen. He chased other stallions away who came nearby. The next day he was loaded into one trailer, his mare into another, and they will never see each other again.

Any wild horse rounded up who has an injury is put to death; sometimes the injury may be something simple such as a blind eye that the wild horse managed to live with in the wild, or club feet, something easily correctable by a farrier. Last year at the South Steens roundup in OR, 11 Cremello wild horses were put down because they 'might' have a gene that causes blindness. At least 244 wild horses were killed in 2022 directly due to being rounded up.

Once rounded up, the younger wild horses are shipped all over the country to adoption events. If they do not get adopted after 3 events, they are considered three-strikers and listed as sale authority horses where anyone can buy them for just $25. Many of these wild horses end up in the slaughter pipeline to Mexico and Canada.

The older wild horses rounded up are sent to long-term holding facilities where they languish in small pens (most of which are only cleaned twice a year) for the rest of their lives.

All wild horses rounded up were born on the range and lived wild and free, together, until the Bureau of Land Management decided to remove them and make more room for even more cattle and sheep. The BLM won't stop rounding up the wild horses until there are less than 26,000 remaining on America's public lands, a number Congress deemed too low in 1971 when they unanimously signed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act.

We want to stop the wild horse roundups and we need your help. We are holding the 2nd Save Our Wild Horses Conference in Washington, DC again this year, just a few minutes from Capitol Hill and Congress. We have an unbelievable list of 15 expert guest speakers who will talk to us about the wild horses & burros, rangeland health, rewilding, and what needs to happen to keep our wild horses on the range. We have meetings scheduled with US Representatives to tell them what is happening on the range. For information on the conference, please visit www.saveourwildhorses.net

Wild horses need our voices. Can you help us with the expenses for the not-for-profit conference and help to stop wild horse roundups? America's wild horses and burros Thank You!