Unprecedented flood of the lower Salt River!
ALERT! We received a call from SRP. Because upper reservoirs are full, they are releasing a LOT of water from the Stewart mountain dam into the lower Salt River. UPDATE: It is now a dangerous amount of flooding (between 30,000 and 40,000 CFS) so PLEASE everyone be careful!! SRWHMG volunteers, please evacuate all rec sites, ...
Thank you Forbes!!
Our Facebook communities are a very busy place and have certainly made a difference. We love all of the horse advocates there! It is the power of the public that has and will continue to keep these horses safe. We should not forget that important battles have been won, but that the war against the ...
SRWHMG ALERT/DISEASE WARNING.
Possible clinical signs of strangles (Streptococcus Equi) have been discovered and monitored in Salt River wild horses. UPDATE; a test has come back positive for S. Equi bacteria confirming strangles. Horses affected: 12 Area affected: Sheep's Crossing and Road 2.2 in the Tonto National Forest. Horse back riders please be advised that this is contagious ...
Want to make a difference?
Trash and garbage can hurt wild horses! Comon and join us for a great big cleanup! Thank you Natural Restorations!
Family dinnertime!
Feed stations or no feedstations, these moms are feeding their offspring the best organic meal available; healthy homegrown green spaghetti! (River eelgrass) These are not accidental pictures! Mares really do offer the eelgrass to their offspring, who don't learn how to snorkel until they are older. (We are not sure why it takes the youngens ...
Humane management what does it mean?
In regards to injuries, it means assessing each case on an individual basis, carefully, and over time. When we observe an injury, sometimes it's a quick clear decision, sometimes it may need a veteranary opinion, and sometimes, it is only time that will tell. We document the case, we report it to AZDA and then ...
We need sponsors for our orphan foals!
Getting used to water without pressure,...and then the Salt River wild horse in him comes out! What a good boy! Please share that we need sponsors for our orphan foals, in order to keep up their around the clock care, it's important for them that they are raised right! Please consider a small donation through ...
Peanut and Rosy can finally be together!
We have been looking forward to this moment for a long time! For 6 weeks our volunteers have tended to these two orphan foals day and night, each foal with their own set of complicated medical challenges. Peanut overcame two bacterial infections, C-dif and Salmonella, both extremely contagious and dangerous bacterial infections, so we have ...
Thank you for pitching in!
On June 24th we asked YOU, the public to help get the Salt River wild horses through a tough time again this year. With the ground still depleted from last years drought and no percipitation, the horses are in between food sources. YOU, helped raise a lot of money in ONE day to get it ...
Share For the 4th of July!
Share for the 4th of July: Because if you are a loyal supporter of ours, you are helping us to protect a huge symbol of American Freedom and Independence. Have a safe and happy Independence Day everyone! SRWHMG
Wishing You a Beautiful Day!
Wishing our supporters a good morning, and a beautiful day from the Enchanted Forest where Salt River wild horses are sleeping in this morning! This Forest is alive with the sound of wild horses! https://www.facebook.com/saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup/videos/375234086467160/
Thank You To Our Volunteers!
Hi everyone, how was your weekend? Our weekend was great! Among other things, our volunteers accomplished the following: Our Road Patrol Team 🚘helped several bands to safer areas, our Feed Team 🐴stocked 6 strategic feed stations with certified weed free alfalfa, our Fencing Team🚧 repaired 2 damaged pieces of fence, our Field Team monitored and documented 2 injuries🐎🐎 and ...
Come to the Final Race of the Night Mare series by Run Your Race AZ!
The third and final race of the Night Mare series by Run Your Race AZ supporting the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group is coming up Friday July 26th! (If you aren't a runner, you are welcome to come out and walk as well, and doggies too!) Race takes place at AZ Falls, located at ...
Fundraiser At Culver’s!
Stop by Culver's this week July 1st thru July 7th and enjoy a meal or dessert and show your support. Just let the cashier know you're there to support the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group.
Rosy Update
Her hernia surgery was successful and she is recovering! She is not comfortable yet, but our volunteers are keeping her company so that she has familiar people around, and Chapparel is giving her expert and around the clock care, plus she is in an air conditioned stall! (If you'd like to sponsor Rosy, please go ...
RUN WILD!
Friday June 28th, is race #2 in the Night Mare Series. Everyone that came out for the first race had a great time and there's still time to sign up for race 2 & 3 in the series! Just click on this event for all details, the medals are very cool!! And please, stop by ...
Born Free!
Watch this spectacular, up close video, of a foal being born wild and free! This is why it is so important to give wild horses their space! This video shows, with astounding clarity, the very important bonding process of how the foal struggles and copes with her first few hours of life. Watch the family ...
Update on Rosy, the baby horse saved after the death of her mother
Rosy was without her mother (deceased) for a long time before we could rescue her, apparently even longer than we thought. She has received plasma and hydration initially and got another bag of fluids today. She is hanging inthere, with hour by hour close care even throughout the night. We need your support for her! ...
One year down, 100 more to go!
How time flies when you are doing the right thing! One year ago we were hired by the State of Arizona to do the very important job of humanely managing the Salt River wild horses. We have accomplished soo much in that time! We never said humane wild horse management would be easy, but we ...
An Oopsie in an Eddie!
Managing wild horses is an adventure every single day, but for SRWHMG darter Cindy S, the river got a little too wild this time! Her kayak flipped over, when the PZP team was trying to cross the river, to find one of the oldest mares, a very important PZP candidate! Cindy had a frightening experience, ...
Butcher Jones Horses Are Moving
Moving notice: Hello, we are the Butcher Jones horses, we have moved. Our old address is Butcher Jones beach. We made a lot of memories there, but it was not a good place for us anymore. It was so crowded with people there, and we had a hard time getting to the water and staying ...
Peanut Is Home
He is by no means out of the woods yet, but he is so happy to be back in his large stall and play area, and we are so glad to be able to continue his medical care here at our facility, with our many amazing volunteer care experts. He has something bacterial going on, ...
Peanut Is at the Vet
Poor little Peanut is at the vet!! He was doing so great when all of a sudden he started having the squirts diarrhea (excuse the word) and running a fever. Since we do not want to take any risks with him, we brought him to the vet right away for bloodwork and bacterial testing. He ...
Lost Foal Update
We waited in the forest with him for 5 hours, in case his mare and his band came back; our field team searched for 2 days everywhere; and we asked photographers for help on our pages,..but now we may have to accept that this little peanut will need a new family, plus day and night ...
Rescue Anniversary
Do you guys all remember Old Lady's rescue last year? The first photo is a few days after we had brought her to our SRWHMG facility. We very carefully rehabilitated her through a well planned nutrition program. We think it's important to give our rescues a life that closely resembles that of the wild, by ...
Support Salt River Wild Horse Management Group
Support Salt River Wild Horse Management Group with Fry's Community Rewards Shopping Did you know you can support Salt River Wild Horse Mgmt Group just by shopping at Fry's? It's easy when you enroll in Fry's Community Rewards! To get started click on this link, https://www.frysfood.com/topic/new-community-rewards-program and follow the directions to link your VIP card ...
Alls Well Ends Well
Does anyone remember this helicopter that we were concerned about? Well we have to give H5 Helicopter company a lot of credit for changing and adjusting their procedures to protect wild horses, plus helping us out in a big way! They were most gracious in their response to a pretty harsh public lashing. In a ...
Update to #bringthemhome
The traveling herd consists of 4 different bands that all like to hang out in each others proximity for safety. There are two foals; one 4 week old and a tiny one week old, both are girls. The first day on the other side of Bush Highway was confusing for them, (they have lived at ...
Happy Birthday to our President Simone Netherlands
Can anyone imagine where the Salt River wild horses would be without her? To celebrate, please contribute just a few dollars to her fundraiser. It will go towards the #bringthemhome relocation project of the Butcher Jones horses. It is very expensive with new loads of water deliveries every evening and many more water troughs needed. ...
Cactus Fire Just Turned Two
Here he is, then and now. He was born with ashes falling all around him and had a bad cough his first few weeks. Now a happy Salt River wild horse and a beautiful one at that. He is the darkest horse we have on the river. There are no black Salt River wild horses. ...
Project Bring Them Home
This is a 2013 picture of the Butcher Jones horses at the river by SRWHMG photographer Susie Westerfelt. The Butcher Jones horses were driven across Bush hwy sometime in 2014 by some unauthorized cowboys and they became stuck on the Butcher Jones side without access to the River. They survived there because of the watertanks ...
Celebrating Earth Day
Celebrating Earth Day by helping to make the Lower Salt River a better place for all species! Salt River Wild Horse Management Group participated in Natural Restorations Earth Day Clean up today at Phon D Sutton recreation area. “The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” —Ernest Hemingway SRWHMG will continue to fight ...
Guess who’s birthday it is!
And yes, we celebrate each horses birthday with carrotcake and the (half in tune half not) birthday song! : ) Do you know what she would like for her birthday? Sponsors! Sponsors are people who make it possible for us to buy her favorite things, they make it possible for her to have a leisurely ...
Gideon and Snow love their Ultra 24
Ultra 24 is a milk replacer that we have used with all our wild rescue babies. Our boys are growing up but they still need their milk replacer twice a day! Would you help Salt River Wild Horse Management with a gift of Ultra 24 or a Tractor Supply gift card from our Amazon Wish ...
Rolling rolling rolling…
In this sandy clearing in the forest, wild horses come to roll. It seems to be contagious, even the foal gives it a try after watching his family. Wild horses take sandbaths to protect them from biting insects, but they also do it just because it feels good. The yawning is a release of pressure ...
Do you see him?
Do you see him? We almost didn't! Please beware, rattlers are out and about everywhere in the TNF. They have been seen by our volunteers (who are wearing snakeboots) in every recreation site along Bush Hwy. This one was hiding at Coon Bluff. It's a wild world outthere!
Sign the Petition
Did you know? The SRWHMG is on it's way to Utah to save the Onaqui wild horses together with AWHC! We have a very reasonable proposal for the BLM which includes an intensive fertility control plan. Don't worry, we've left enough people in the field in the TNF for emergencies and monitoring. Will you help ...
Today is AZ gives Day!
Today is AZ gives Day! There are many ways to donate! This is probably the easiest one and fb takes no percentage! We need your help to continue to prove what we have always said: "This Herd Can Be Managed For the Public and By the Public!" With your financial support, you will become a ...
Please Donate to Save the Onaqui Wild Horses
We are committed to offering solutions so wild horses can stay free! SRWHMG and AWHC have several certified darters who would dedicate time to dart the Onaqui herd to bring the population down without removals. That is the proposal we are bringing, we will have a meeting there with the BLM Utah State director and ...
A Week Old Foal Separated From Her Band
Today something wild and crazy happened and we hope that these pictures will tell the story. This foal in these pictures, she is only a week and 2 days old, she doesn't belong to any of these bands of horses in the pictures. She had lost her band, and these are bachelors (young studs) running ...
Join the Night Mare Series Races
Feel like going for a run for a great cause? RunYourRace AZ is raising funds for the SRWHMG with 3 night races, called the Night mare series. The First Night Mare 5k Race is on Friday, May 24, 2019. The race takes place at AZ Falls, locates At 5802 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ ...
Fundraiser to Protect the Horses
📣**Ok everyone, let's do this together!*** Let's prove once again how these wild horses are managed for and by the public!!*** Let's see how much we can fundraise for these signs, just on this page, just on fb. (Fb does not charge like other fundraising sites) Each one of these signs in a large size ...
Guidelines for New Foals
Sharing from our Advocates page * Guidelines for new foals: Salt River wild horses are incredibly popular. This is what in fact saved them. But it is a two sided coin sometimes. Can the public possibly love them too much? We want things to stay safe for horses and safe for people. It is foaling ...
Progress Made on Bush Hwy
As most locals know, Bush Hwy runs directly through Salt River wild horse habitat, with the Salt River on one side and their grazing grounds on the other. We have been having meetings with MCDOT for more safety improvements to the road, and last year some of these improvements were added, such as the horse ...
A little Trash Talk.
Our mission is to protect and humanely manage the Salt River wild horses. Improving the habitat they live in is an important and never ending part of that mission. On a daily basis, our volunteers cleanup downed barbed wire, remove old stakes, pick up fishing line, remove nails from fire pits, collect bullets and lots ...
Happy Valentine’s day to our wonderful supporters!
Spread love and kindness; this is basically our attitude all year long and we hope that it catches on MORE. Why not make the world a better place wherever and whenever you can? ❣ This is Red Beauty, a wild horse who was not making it in the wild. 🐎 He was going to die ...
First foal of 2019!
We made a post the other day about humane wild horse management and what that means exactly. 4.9k supporters liked that post which was about Squiggle, one of the oldest mares on the Salt River. Now we want to share something equally special with you; the first foal of 2019!! Coincidentily this foal was born ...
Humane Wild Horse Management
We have to share something sad but beautiful with you. This is Squiggle, one of the oldest mares on the Salt River. These are sad but amazing moments when her band was giving her comfort this morning in her dying moments. Squiggle could no longer get up. After these precious moments, we euthanized her humanely. ...
Felicity and Her Future Baby Need Sponsors
With all of the bad news lately, we also have some exciting news! Felicity, the mare rescued from drowning in the canal last year, is very pregnant! Her rescue from drowning was miraculous, but the fact that she was pregnant at the time, makes the rescue even more amazing. We are in need of sponsors ...
The Feds Capturing Wild Horses, Fiscally Irresponsible
GREAT article. Progress is all about education. So please share this, for more humane and responsible wild horse management everywhere. Thank you, SRWHMG. P.S. small correction, we are working with the State of Arizona Department of Agriculture. (AZDA) DailyCaller.com
Here we go, LIVE at the Ride for the Salt River wild horses!
Bald Eagles and wild horses thriving together, protected on the lower Salt River in the Tonto National Forest. We are preserving one heck of a legacy for our grandchildren and it is because of support like this. Thank you Joe Miller and Aurora from Liberty Wildlife! [fbvideo link="https://www.facebook.com/saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup/videos/2214842895399962/" width="500" height="400" onlyvideo="1"]
Take Caution in Heber Area
We are aware of the terrible situation in the Heber Area, where four horses within the same band have died, allegedly from being shot, and/or being hit on the 260. Some members of our field team are actively documenting the Heber herd for future purposes and the deceased band had been photographed by several of ...
Rain, We Love The Rain!
The forage is trying to recover from the worst drought in history! [fbvideo link=”https://www.facebook.com/saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup/videos/336377253628288/” width=”500″ height=”400″ onlyvideo=”1″]
Sponsor a Salt River Wild Horse
Rosco took a little taste of the snow. Theres something weird about a Salt River wild horse in snow, but turns out they like it! Rosco, our very first Salt River wild rescue, now almost 3 years old, says thank you to all of his sponsors, without whom he could not continue his luxury lifestyle! ...
4th Annual Ride for the Salt River Wild Horses
Ready to ride? The 4th Annual ride for the Salt River wild horses is January 26th! Save the date! Click on "going" in this event on our facebook page, if you are going! All proceeds benefit the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group for the humane management of the horses. Looking forward to it! View ...
These are the Abbys and their story will amaze you.
This mare/filly pair is on the front of our 2019 calendar (buy at www.srwhmg.org), because they are our best survival story of the year: What most people notice first about the beautiful dark brown pair, is that the foal is her mother’s mini me. It is not common for a foal to have identical markings …