June 26 We were honored with a visit from Congressman David Schweikert and his beautiful son and daughter this morning, at our SRWHMG facility. Congressman Schweikert is very intune with the Wild Horse Issue and he is just as concerned as we are about what is happening with the Alpine wild horses, as well ...
June 26 We bid all horses up to over kill price, and even after that, someone kept outbidding us on ALL horses! This is why we need all good homes to contact us because we do not want to bid against good homes at all, but we will bid up all horses to over ...
June 25 Our first load of Alpine wild horses, all the mares without foals, have made it safely to #thewildhorserefuge !! Wild and free once more and forever!! We hope these pictures bring you as much peace as they do us, after all the efforts blood sweat and tears, this is soo sweet. The ...
June 24 AUCTION CLOSED: The winning bid of this beautiful ring is Linda Bradley at $1000! Congratulations Linda! And thank you for saving 2 Alpine wild horses with this! Thank you to everyone who was bidding, we will do some more auctions like this and we will take in any donations of valuable items ...
June 24 It's a long and arduous process: Load from auction to SRWHMG temporary holding. Feed lots of hay to strengthen them up. Load from SRWHMG temporary holding to the veterinary clinic for Coggins. Feed lots of hay. Wait for health certificates. Load from the veterinary clinic for a freedom ride to #thewildhorserefuge. Repeat 5 ...
June 23 Breaking News: We need more time and more resources to save more Alpine wild horses! Please thank Fox10 Phoenix and ABC15 for their coverage of this urgent effort!
June 22 Horses are wondering when the eelgrass will be served because this green algea is not as good. (Our feed program is still inactive.) To stay tuned to the Alpine wild horses, please head to Alpine Wild Horse Advocates. P.S. Which Salt River wild horse are these?
June 20 So precious! Can you imagine what could have happened to him instead? His whinnie feels like a great big "Thank you" for saving his mom and the 70 Alpines from the last two auctions. Our supporters and volunteers are pulling out all the stops for this incredible feat. These auctions are without limitation ...
June 19th After saving a boatload of Alpine wild horses we will go back to our regular Salt River Horse programming. Have you ever seen a purple horse? We have one! 💜 No you can't adopt him, because he's never going to be removed. He is going to live his life taking care of his ...
June 19th Thank you Ruth for doing this! Sadly (at time of this post) it does not have any donations in it. Please help Ruth, help SRWHMG, help an Alpine wild horse get to the Wild Horse Refuge! The auction was very expensive as someone was bidding against us. But horses still need their coggins ...
June 18th This is Dad Lindor, also nicknamed Keith Urban for his mane, with his son Splendor, the only Salt River foal of 2023. Because of our fertility control program success, now no one can say birth control on wild horses doesn't work. Clearly it does, as long as you have a dedicated and detailed ...
June 17th While we are working our butts off trying to save Alpine wild horses, we've still got our shifts covered at the river as well, no worries! Our road patrol team, field team, darting team, and our habitat improvement team don't skip a beat, even in this heat! Please continue to donate to the ...
June 17th Every Alpine wild horse YOU can help rescue gets a ticket to THIS paradise. But it costs $500 minimum per horse for their bail/transport/coggins/feed/ plus temporary facilities! 43 are already safe already thanks to 225 angels. Overwhelmingly, there is another auction this weekend and it will keep going until there is no wild ...
June 17th Alpine's band (with new babies), meets Majestic's band w new babies, taken at the end of May by AWHA. How nauseating that they were captured right after this. Alpine was the very first stallion and band we documented in the Apache Forest, hence his name. It is nauseating that both of these peaceful ...
June 11th He is in the Alpine wild horse auction with most of his band (but not all). We almost didn't recognize him in the bad cell phone auction pictures. Removed from the Apache Sitgreaves Forest, just last week, seperated from his family, stuffed together with 21 other stallions, this amazing specimen of a historic ...
June 10th The fact that you can still watch beautiful wild horse families in Arizona is amazing! It is due to our humane management programs under the AZDA Salt River Horse Herd . But let's watch out because some organizations are out to get them. Right now we are working hard at raising funds and ...
June 8th UPDATE: 193 people got this fundraiser to it's goal of buying them all!! These 193 people are their angels who are buying their tickets to paradise. And it really is wild horse paradise where they can peacefully roam together as families again! Thank you to The Wild Horse Refuge. Now we just have ...
June 8th Do you want to know why we ask you to call and write your legislators? Because you are our superpower. Regardless of if you felt like u were heard, or if you got an answering machine, regardless if you got a vague letter back, from which you couldn't even tell how the legislator ...
June 8th Horses just as cute as her are going to be sold this weekend! We are trying to save them but what we need right now is people calling legislators to ask for their support. This reel will not be very popular, because it requires action, but wouldn't you like to help make a ...
June 7th U.S. Forest Service-Tonto National Forest Total acres updated to 3240 acres. WILDFIRE UPDATE: The Bullet Fire is fully contained, 3355 acres. There are still crews on the scene to monitor and patrol. Smoke is still be visible from State Route 87. The Lower Sycamore and Sugar Loaf areas will remain closed until deemed ...
June 7th Coyote is a super vocal horse and you can almost understand what he squeals when Rascal grabs him a little too rough! So cute! No horse was hurt, and in the end, when they run towards our filming volunteer, she was not hurt either, because she was smart in a tree. (Never approach ...
June 5th Wild horses have an important place in nature, and important place in our economy and a great big place in our hearts. Just now strong enough, to send this video of Mirabelle, our Salt River angel above.
June 5th We are very sad to see our Liaison Makenzie move on in her career in law enforcement. We have handled many challenging issues together and have truly enjoyed working with her so much over the past 3 years. We've appreciated her expertise and real understanding of wild horses and her kindness towards our ...
June 5th Beautiful people came to see beautiful wild horses from the other side of the world! There would be protests the world over, if anyone actually tried to reduce the Salt River wild horses to where the public couldn't find them anymore. Just sayin'... They are loved, they are a boon to our economy, ...
June 4th Buy a beautiful "run free" horse necklace and get a "I stand with wild horses" bracelet free! Let everyone know you love wild horses! Proceeds from any of our merchandise will go towards legal funds for the Salt River wild horses. Thank you so much for your support.
June 3rd It's not the 314 Salt River wild horses who are posing a threat to the natural environment, it's the 8 million visitors. The Salt River wild horses are actually helping the environment.
June 2nd These are no less than 8 different bands crossing at the same time! These horses are lived and cherished all over the world. Please support us in helping to protect them.
May 31st Every day our group is busy with our fertility control program and our habitat improvement program. These horses are being targeted in court by the Center for Biological Diversity. We see lots of environmental concerns, but NOT from horses. Perhaps CBD should come down here to help clean up. Did you know we ...
May 30th As part of our habitat improvement program, SRWHMG volunteers continually pick up trash along the Salt River. We do not ask anyone for donations for it; we do it because we care about the environment. Center for Biological Diversity members do nothing to clean up along the Salt River, yet they claim to ...
May 29th This river is managed for all stakeholders, including every kind of recreational activity on the river. For CBD (Center for Biological Diversity) to claim the horses are ruining this environment is a new level of dishonesty. The yellow billed cuckoo is much more bothered by people and the pollution we leave than by ...
May 27th They are amazing athletes, our Salt River wild horses. For centuries they have evolved in and around this river. They teach their foals how to swim on the same day they are born. They eat and graze from the river and they sleep in it. When they are injured, they stay right next ...
May 24th Let’s pretend for a minute that you were a yellow-billed cuckoo, who wanted to make a nest, would you be more deterred by the 4 legged or by the 2-legged river goers with the boomboxes? But watch how patiently this horse waits his turn like its a traffic light. They are just such ...
May 21st In 2016, two of the most powerful patriarchs of the Salt River, Wisdom and Sarge, each had a son out of their favorite mare, who were bound to continue their legacies. We named Wisdom and Faith's colt, Spirit. We named Sarge and Little Girl's colt, Luka. Wisdom passed away from old age in ...
May 20th Some hope in Colorado on the front of humane wild horse management. Thank you Governor Jared Polis! Vote for officials only who can understand math and fertility control and treating wild horses humanely! Jared Polis At Coal Canyon Trailhead in Mesa County where I just signed a bill to support better, more ...
May 20th Humane management of wild horses includes assessing and monitoring injuries and also includes rescue if necessary or humane euthanasia as a last resort. It is part of our job through our contract with the Arizona Department of Agriculture. (AZDA). When you see a wild horse who is injured here's how you can be ...
May 19th Here’s the EA of the Apache Sitgreaves Forest Service (ASNF) for more grazing in many allotments, including the East Eagle allotment, where the Alpine wild horses live!!! ( along FS road 25B and FS 217.) Their environmental concern, it's so convincing, isn't it? Strange how that concern dissapears faster than a stick of ...
May 19th Rescued Alpine wild horses removed from the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, so that they can add more, yes even more, cattle grazing. Help us stand up for wild horses !! https://www.facebook.com/reel/197108133260623
May 19th All of everyone around the world, seasoned horse advocate, or newly informed, let your voices be "herd"!! Thank you to every organization standing with us!! SRWHMG. The Wild Beauty Foundation We are so proud that so much awareness is happening for wild horses through our documentary. However, as we celebrate this ...
May 18th A lot of our supporters were CBD supporters, but not anymore. It comes down to knowing who you want to support. #shameoncbd If it was truly about the environment they would support humane birthcontrol and not aim to stop it. #Saltriverwildhorses #saltriverhorses
May 17th Q. Why are the Salt River wild horses not scared of humans? A. Because they've had to learn that in order to get a drink and survive, they have to put up with the two-legged creatures in and around the water. It's nothing recent- it's just a species evolving and doing what ...
May 16th Let's talk about the Tonto National Forest and the decisions they've made, because after we join the CBD lawsuit we cannot talk about it anymore. We want you, the public, to understand the important details, because you have a stake in it, but never before were we able to tell you everything, because ...
May 15th Splendor making a splash! When people see wild horses the normal reaction is omg! but when they see Splendor it's 5 times omg! Lol. Wild horses put up with thousands of visitors a day and they do it with so much patience and grace! The horses are not the ones challenging the ...
May 16th America's wild horses, plus all the people who love them, deserve so much better than this. There is a better way! We, SRWHMG are succesful at the humane way to manage wild horses, which is precisely why the Salt River wild horses are targeted now again. Everyone can do something. Please Call our ...
May 14th This picture captured a perfect parenting moment; Spring is checking on Splendor after a difficult river crossing, and Splendor is obviously saying "I love you mom"! From all of us: Happy Mother's Day to all mothers of all species all over the world! Please help us stand up for the Salt River wild ...
May 14th Do you see all of the flood damage behind Little Chief, the washed away tree saplings, the otter babies gone, and all the debris deposited? Well, we know one thing, no matter the wild accusations by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) lawsuit, Little Chief here, (lieutenant of Lindor's band), had nothing ...
May 12th Watch party! This documentary is now available on Amazon prime! Salt River wild horses are in it, as well as many of our horse advocate friends. Let's watch it together 7 pm tonight. Invite your friends and let us know what you think! It's time mainstream America finds out what is really going ...
May 11th The attack on the Salt River wild horses (and the Alpine wild horses) is much more sinister than what the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Maricopa Audubon Society would like their supporters to believe. This is John Koleszar, with Arizona Sportsman for wildlife conservation, one of the plaintiffs of the lawsuit ...
May 8th Our everyday job, it's what is keeping this historic herd wild and free. Thank you for your support everyone! SRWHMG.
May 6th It is a dangerous time for the Salt River wild horses. They are fierce and can stand up for themselves in the forest, but they need us to stand up for them everywhere else! We are working hard with our new attorney to fight the latest attack on the Salt River wild ...
May 4th And may you also be with the horse! (By standing up for them) Thank you everyone for your overwhelming support. SRWHMG.
May 1st Come on down to our Advocates page, where there's proof every day of what the horses do and what they don't do, and what the river and the TNF look like in real time. There is nothing fake or made up there, and people post awesome videos like this! You can also see ...
April 29th This video is from just a few minutes ago. Yes, unfortunately it is true that our humane management of the Salt River wild horses is under attack. But we stand firmly by the long term management plan which will reduce the herd slowly over time, which is in line with the environment, and ...
Salt River, April 29th 2023 Enjoyed by millions of visitors to the Tonto National Forest, the Salt River wild horses roam freely in their 20,000 acre habitat along the river, protected by State Law ARS 3-1491. They are the pride of the community, a favorite subject of photographers and the icon of the wild, free ...
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April 26th While keeping up our important programs in the field, as well as feeding our rescues, we are working hard to help more Alpine wild horses in the future. This fundraiser is also RAFFLE for BREYER horses! 🐎 Everyone who donates more than 20 dollars to this fundraiser (and messages us their address) will ...
April 25th Salt River wild horses are real athletes and excellent swimmers, but there were some gut-wrenching moments this week! The CFS (Cubic Feet per Second) from the Stewart Mountain Dam is finally getting back down to normal. No horses were hurt or have drowned as far as we know. The powerful water changed the ...
April 24th They are done with their quarantine and have just been released! We worked so hard and found good homes for 173 removed Alpine wild horses, (#Alpinewildhorsearmy) and they are all so lucky, BUT our Alpine23 (Ridge, Baldy and Hero's bands) hit the wild horse jackpot with their new digs of 7000 acres! Please ...
April 22nd Mark Storto > Salt River Wild Horses - Advocates ZZZZzzzzz.... must have been one heck of a party out there last night! This was late morning!!!! 🙂
April 20th Born at the SRWHMG rescue out of one of the mares removed by the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest and put on an auction website without limitation to slaughter. Imagine what would have happened. #shameonasnf There are better, more humane ways to manage wild horses.
April 18th 🌊...And the Salt River is back down to normal levels and all rec areas are open! #tontonationalforest 🐴 The horses have had a nice reprieve from people along the river, but that's now over. 🚣 When recreating, if you see Salt River horses, please enjoy those special moments in peace, and from 50 ...
April 17th Baby Alpine wild horse, loves and follows volunteers for cuddles and scratches. Her family band was needlessly removed from the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest and auctioned off online without limitation to slaughter, can u imagine what could have happened to her? Please support keeping wild horses free and managing them humanely in the ...
April 16th Not all wild stallions have lead stallion mentality. Meet Garret, lieutenant to Iroquois' band. Garret is very popular with our local photographers, because he can frequently be seen battling other stallions. If you have pictures of Garret battling, please post them in the comments! Garret is not doing all that battling to become ...
April 15th With so many SRWHMG caretaker volunteers, and a brand new baby, it's important that we give good caretaking instructions. Thank you Cris and Karen for making this funny video. It is from our private page for our property caretakers only, but it's a good laugh for a share. Lol, our new rake! Everyone ...
April 14th Aaww, he was born between midnight and 5 am, and at 7 am he is already this astute and showing his personality! He should have had the opportunity to be born in the wild like his ancestors did, but the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest would rather have all that grass available for livestock ...
April 14th The endless cycle of cruel and expensive roundups of American wild horses is a government system that is broken, and we are hopeful that this documentary (that will include Salt River wild horses) will shine a light to reach the darkest corners. There is a better way to manage America's wild horses. The ...
April 12th Good News!! Missing domestic horse Niko was found by SRWHMG volunteers this evening. He is deep in the gullies and canyons of the Tonto National Forest with bachelor stallions Tiago and Bruno! Who are both brown (ish), but you can leave it up to our volunteers to pick out a brown horse amongst ...
April 12th She was born in September of 2014 and you can tell obviously that she is not a grey. While she looked dun as a foal, she has turned into a beautiful bay like her mom Serena. Savannah grew up in Sarge's band who at that time had a home territory between ...
April 12th We love keeping track of the bloodlines of the Salt River wild horses. Today's spotlight is on patriarch and retired lead stallion Sarge. (When we release interesting information about our many years of research and data collection, please feel free to share it, as long as you credit who you learned it from, ...
April 4th Today is AZgives Day #AZGives , this is a day for people to support and invest in what they care about. Please don't forget about the Salt River wild horses or the Alpine wild horses! Keeping them wild and free benefits our local economy and all Arizonans. Wild horses are part of our ...
April 2nd Many people suggested the name Poppy for the latest Salt River wild foal, because of the superbloom in the Tonto National Forest. But we already have a Poppy (Posey is his mother and Shadowfax his father). He was also born during a huge poppy bloom, in March of 2014. Here is Poppy in ...
April 1st Photo by SRWHMG Rick Blandford Walk quietly in the forest and you will reap The joy of earth awakening from winter sleep Wild flowers blooming create a golden glow We can witness life's circle and watch it grow Share the forests spirit and rebirth But love and respect the splendor of the earth. ...
March 28th Please everyone don't get close to the raging lower Salt River right now, SRP just opened Stewart mountain Dam to 2700 cfs and it will go with powerful force today up to 6500 cfs, which is huge. The river which is usually a life-force can also be a dangerous place for many of ...
March 27th As our humane fertility control program is so effective, this is a very special little one! Welcome to your home in the Tonto National Forest, where you may grow up wild and free for all of Arizona to see. After a long winter and lots of rain, it is the most beautiful springtime ...
March 27th Nessa one of our Alpine girls is enjoying getting scratches from one of her caregivers. Erin Yager > SRWHMG- Wild Rescues O.M.G!!! I was going to exit thru SF's gate and Nessa blocked me so she could get butt scratches. So after a couple of minutes I walked down the fence line to ...
March 24th Apache's band used to run in the Apache Forest but the Apache Sitgreaves Forest Service got rid of them and sold them at auction without limitation to slaughter, at which we rescued them. #shameonASNF We documented this band in the wild and that's how we were able to find them in different ...
March 23rd This is why we are out there warning people that they are still wild horses, and things can change in a second. Please, dear visitors, stay 50 ft from the horses at all times, for their well-being, and for your own safety! Thank you AZDA for helping to educate the public. ...
March 23rd For our supporters who live in Chino Valley, the last of our calendars are available at Olson's Grain and they are now only $10!! The pictures are of such quality that many people frame them after the month is over! Thank you to Olson's Grain for their support! We use the credit ...
March 22nd Hi everyone! This is a post without a picture of the newest baby Salt River wild horse, but yes, Spring has sprung, and it's a boy! For the protection of the foal and mother we will not post any pictures of him until he is 2 weeks old and even then, we ...
March 21st SB 1057 if passed, would make slaughtering and killing Alpine wild horses illegal and it would open a process of negotiation for their humane management. Contrary to what anti-wild horse factions may say, this bill does not prevent removals, but if removed, they would at least end up in good homes or ...
March 18th We are very thankful to all of the public who understands that to be able to enjoy the wild horses, you have to respect their space, and to be able to enjoy nature, you have to keep it clean. We see the public informing the public and that's what it's going to ...
March 17th If you are having a busy day, please enjoy this one minute gift of absolute peace and tranquility with the Salt River wild horses. We are also thankful that the horses are mowing the green nicely including under the trees and bushes, thus reducing our extreme firedanger once it all dries up ...