⏱️ 100 horses is not enough to carry them from our past into the future. We are reposting this comparison picture to remind everyone who tries to devalue wild horses by claiming they are “not historic”, “dropped off by ranchers” or “Indian ponies”. How quickly we humans forget our own history or spin it, to create our own narratives.

📰Of course, there are historic articles from our AZ state archives, circa 1890, describing the native stock in the Salt River Valley (posted on our website); but for anyone needing some actual visuals, this is the earliest photo we could find, a 1957 photo from Arizona Highways taken by Harry Vroman, and a photo taken by one of our volunteers waiting in the same spot till 3 beautiful Salt River wild horses showed up! 😀
This was ofcourse long before the Forest Service was supposed to protect them by creating a wild horse territory according to the 1971 Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act, which for some reason, they did not do. Which brings us to today, fighting for their future again.
So when you see people stating all the rhetoric that devalues wild horses, just copy and paste this picture. This is the exact same spot on the Tonto National Forest, where the Salt River wild horses still live today. We are incredibly lucky to still have them here, and utter fools if we don’t fight with all our might to protect them,… again.

100 Salt River wild horses is not enough to carry them from our rich Arizona past, into the future, for our grandchildren to behold like we still can today.

History is only made, by people who care about the future. If you do, then all we ask is to make some phonecalls today, (even if you’ve already done it) , and tell them very politely that 100 Salt River wild horses is not enough!

We’ve included the numbers to call.

We are so thankful for YOU willing to give them your voice! @topfans

Let’s use this tag #100_is_not_enough