March 1st We continue to prove how much wild horses mean to Arizona and we continue to prove that the public can and will fund their humane management, so that Arizonans can enjoy wild horses for future generations to come. As you know, our organization manages the Salt River wild horses humanely without ever having ...
February 28th In wild horse society battles happen routinely over territory and hierarchy. These battles only turn serious when an attacking stallion challenges a lead stallion with an established family band. This is never a wise decision on the part of the attacking stallion as a lead stallion will defend what is theirs, to the ...
February 26th We are inviting you to come visit our last parade and booth of the season, at the Lost Dutchman Days in Apache Junction, today February 26th and tomorrow 27th from 9 am to 6pm. Last chance to meet our wonderful volunteers and buy awesome wild horse merchandise that funds our important programs! There ...
February 25th From the heights of the mountains in the Tonto National Forest, AZ, peace and freedom is all we see and feel, and it is everything. From here, it seems clear, that an attack on peace and freedom anywhere, is an attack on peace and freedom everywhere. Praying for world peace. SRWHMG. Photo: Rick ...
February 24th Watch the video on our Facebook page Shadowfax was rescued due to his old age and rapid deterioration in the wild at the end of December 2021. It is now February and his teeth have been fixed as best as possible, he has settled in his routine, he has made new horse and ...
February 21st Today, February 21st, while eating at Panda Express anywhere in the United States, you will help SRWHMG by enjoying a meal. This is a wonderful fundraiser! Order your lunch or dinner online with the code 906584 and you will help support our wild horse mission, 28% of your bill will be donated to ...
February 20th Less than a week away!!! SRWHMG will be at Lost Dutchman Days in Apache Junction, February 25th thru 27th from 9 am til after 6pm all 3 days. Come check out our amazing booth, listen to live music, enjoy the carnival, amazing food, and lots of vendors... Come on out Saturday, February 26th ...
February 18th Mark you calendars!!! This Monday, Feb 21st you will help SRWHMG by enjoying a Panda Express meal. This is a nationwide fundraiser, your lunch or dinner online order with the code 906584 will help support our wild horse mission, 28% of your bill will be donated to us. Share with your family and ...
February 16th The youngest Salt River wild horse. She is very independent, playful and confident in her own abilities. All of the horses treat her so kind, even the other bands. Time flies and little foals grow up fast! Makenzie was born July 25th 2021. Thank you to Patty Ranweiler for posting this pretty picture ...
February 15th We have two wonderful horses up for adoption. Aladdin and Jasmine. They were dumped by someone at Coon Bluff Recreation site. According to our contract we remove any stray livestock from the Tonto National Forest. These two were easy to rescue as they were very happy to get into our horsetrailer. Alladin is ...
February 15th Thank you AZFamily for asking Forest Service Chief Randy Moore about the wild horse killings in Heber. He seemed surprised by the question, and this was his response: "While I don’t know the specifics about this case, I have all the confidence that if our law enforcement needs additional help, that we’ll ...
February 14th Political enemies of wild horses often wonder why Americans care so much about them. They sometimes call horse advocates "emotional" when it comes to the issue of keeping them wild and free. These emotions are just love and on this Valentine's Day we will attempt to explain why we love wild horses ...
February 9th Congresswoman Dina Titus just introduced a bill to end the use of helicopters in roundups. The American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) has more information on it that you can read here. It feels like progress, but progress never happens fast. Thank you Congresswoman Titus for stepping up for our American icons! SRWHMG. Read ...
February 8th This is the sweetest fundraiser for Valentine's Day! 💕 Trish will send you a heart made out of rose quartz! (Or Amethyst or Red Jasper other precious stone) Please consider donating to this fundraiser or making your own fundraiser to help the Salt River wild horses! Here's why: The Salt River wild horses ...
February 6th This picture is not the prettiest but it says the most about something we would like to convey to all of the public and all legislators. This is Pepper, Cayenne's mother. She is standing here today, stoic, a little ways removed from the rest of her band. They have not gone to eat ...
February 5th Thank you so much to our supporters for the countless sweet condolences for Cayenne. While ofcourse there are hard days managing wild horses, today was a good day, a great day. While leaving enough volunteers in the forest for coverage, the rest of us were manning our booth and walking in the Parada ...
February 5th We have sad news this evening. Cayenne, a beautiful Salt River roan filly was found down and unable to get up. We want to thank the public for calling our hotline, to which we always respond immediately. (480) 868-9301 When we arrived, Cayenne's heart rate was extremely high, she was sweating, moaning and ...
February 3rd Come on out and see us this Saturday, February 5th, 2022 at the 67th Annual Parada del Sol parade and Trail's End Festival in Scottsdale. SRWHMG and our beautiful float will be in the parade and we will have our booth set up with calendars, lots of jewelry, arts and crafts, hats, shirts, ...
January 29th The fun has begun! There will be thousands of pictures in all locations today by our own photographers and also by the public, everyone please be sure to tag them with #ride4saltriverhorses When u want to see if you have been photographed (we try to photograph every rider) just search by that tag! ...
January 26th 🏍🚲🚗🏍 Get Your Motor Running and Join us this Saturday Jan 29th, for the Annual Wild Ride for the Salt River Wild Horses!!!🐎🐎🐎 👏The first few years it was a protest and the next years it was the fundraising rally for their humane management. And now, it is already the seventh year celebration ...
January 21st It's National Hug a Horse Day! But please don't ever try to hug a Salt River wild horse 😉 While wild horses do not have arms for hugging, they do hug each other by bringing their heads and bodies in as close as possible to eachother. The love and comfort they give in ...
January 19th We put a lot of love and effort into fixing up all of our rescues. Shadowfax is accepting the love that is shown to him with an open heart. He is truly special. Facebook let's you give stars now if you like a video, and it's an inexpensive way to show some love ...
January 19th Watch the video here! Because Diamond has only half a coffin bone, his hoof care is a big deal. As most of you know he lost his entire hoof getting stuck in a cattleguard at Butcher Jones, after which we rescued him. Veteranarians said it was best to euthanize him at the time, ...
January 15th He made it through his medical procedure just fine and is doing great! For those of you interested, we made a video. Please let us know if you want us to continue to make these videos. (Don't watch if you do not like to see a horse anesthetized.) Shadowfax's treatment consisted of: A ...
January 14th In our spectacular Tonto National Forest, taking care of a priceless treasure, our Salt River wild horses. Up before the crack of dawn is when you get to see sunrises like this! Horses were NOT in the dangerzone this morning for the first time in weeks, so there was time for selfies! Have ...
January 13th 1.12.22, he was eying a mare/filly pair that he just might win over! Poppy was born in March of 2014, he will be 8 this March. His dam is Posey, who most of you know as Coyote's mom, so Coyote and Poppy are half brothers. And yes Poppy's sire is Shadowfax. Posey was ...
January 11th This video is for those of you who are interested in the process of how we got Poppy in the trailer. It is a long video and it was a long process. We like to take our time because horses can break their legs and necks on paneling if they become panicked. Poppy ...
January 9th Goodmorning supporters and visitors. We are doing some diversionary feeding today and we want to ask for your cooperation. Diversionary feeding is a management tool when horses are making a habit out of being in a dangerous area. The word diversionary says it all, we are trying to divert them in order to ...
January 7th When you see snow fencing along Bush Hwy. in Arizona, it's not because we are expecting snow! : ) It's because Salt River wild horses are migrating to find food which is getting scarce again. The feed program is currently still inactive. They are climbing up high in the mountains, which then takes ...
January 5th SRWHMG will be having a booth, this Saturday January 8th, 2022, 10 am to 7 pm, at Prospector Park (on Idaho rd, north of Lost Dutchman Blvd) for Apache Junction's 100 Centennial Celebration.... We will have lots of wild horse themed merchandise including jewelry and calenders and more..... Hope to see you there. ...
January 4th Check out these absolutely amazing images of Shadowfax in his glory years. Pattie and George Walsh are professional photographers (GPWalsh Photography) and are also long time dedicated volunteers for SRWHMG. They have made it very easy to purchase images of any size (to fit your decor) and also any material (metal, wood or ...
January 4th Watch the video on our Facebook page! If you've read our posts, you may know that we've been having very busy mornings due to some very adventurous bands of Salt River horses. Mick's band is one of the culprit bands and it scares us a lot imagining what could happen to Moonshadow and ...
January 3rd Watch this amazing tribute to Shadowfax! He has lived a full life and was an amazing father and confident but kind lead stallion. As Idyllic as their lives can be when they are healthy, and resources are plenty, just as sad is their decline when they get older. But dont be sad, he ...
January 3rd We meant to turn this into a fundraiser to increase the reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the Heber Wild Horse Killer. (HWHK) However Facebook is having an issue and is not adding the donate button. We apologize and will try again later because we would really like ...
January 1st We made a little update video with special footage from today: New Year's Day 2022. No one in our organization gets paid, but we do work for a reward. Because there is no greater purpose than doing what is right, and there is no greater reward, than knowing you made a difference. We ...
December 31st Cheers everyone, here's our wish for all of you. Happy New Year! Watch our video on Facebook. SRWHMG.
December 31st These Salt River mountain goates (aka horses) are teaching us a lesson. The lesson is, just because they haven't done it before, doesn't mean they won't do it in the future! They are climbing steep mountains and are walking right past the end of the Forest Service fencing, something they have never done ...
December 31st This despicable disgusting human being who is shooting wild horses in Heber Overgaard still has not been caught yet. Three more horses suffered excruciating deaths! This is a dangerous person, his pattern is predictable, it starts every year the first of January and it doesn't stop until March. More wild horses will be ...
December 30th Watch the video on Facebook This is Shadowfax on the left, and Batman on the right, just 10 minutes after we guided Shadowfax through our arena gate earlier today. He now joins Batman for reliable nutritious meals, the best of the best vetcare and loving volunteers. These guys are true icons and we ...
December 30th In other much larger Herd Management Area's (HMA's) older wild horses are seen one day and then just kindof dissapear the next. Like the icons Picasso, Cloud and even Old Man. It's the circle of life and the way of the wild. But in our neck of the woods, we can't exactly say, ...
December 26th We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and got exactly what they wanted too. Watch video on Facebook Our rescues Peanut and Agave are the ones who are most exited about it. With the eelgrass gone and the forage sparse, we are monitoring the wilds who are losing some weight at the current ...
December 25th Making spirits bright since the Spanish left them here. They are home for Christmas and hopefully for many more centuries to come. We thank you all so much for your support throughout this year and we wish unbridled happiness for everyone! Merry Christmas. 🎄💕🐴
December 24th Peace on the Salt River, that's the goal that every member of our group works so hard for. Our participating in community events like parades and booths is not just for fun. It is important to our goals as it creates goodwill in our community and keeps the horses on people's minds. Watch ...
December 17th He has a little bit more to gain, but more and more he's starting to look like the Batman we used to know. It's been just two months and 4 days. It's a very specific science to nurse a horse back to health. You can't just throw a hole bunch of food in ...
December 17th Our elves are busy wrapping presents! We love that Nordstrom rack at Tempe Marketplace let's us have a booth to make some extra funds for our programs and our rescues. Thank you volunteers for working so hard during the holidays! Our merchandise program is our way of creating resources above and beyond donations. ...
December 19th You do see us asking for donations, because of course we cannot run our important programs, or feed our rescues, without sufficient funds. But we also are very resourceful and our volunteers will do just about anything to make some money for the horses, which includes wrapping your Christmas presents! Right now, today ...
December 18th We want to thank our donors and supporters so much for all you give and help us do, we absolutely could not keep the horses wild and free without you. View video on our Facebook page We did send all of our 2021 donors a Christmas card, but here is also a live ...
December 17th A truck driver fell asleep and veered off the road, crashed into the fencing and ended up on the forest at approximately mm 35 on Bush Hwy. MCSO and Forest Service had already left for the evening, but our road patrol volunteers noticed and were able to help with this wild situation! The ...
December 14th If you are looking for last minute presents, you can send these beautiful calendars directly to your loved ones if you fill in their address in your order. Today is the last day to ship in time! 100% of proceeds from this calendar goes into the programs that keep the Salt River wild ...
December 11th Watch the recording on our Facebook page
December 10th Starting end of November beginning of December the Salt River wild horses seem to exchange their Majestic regal looks for some funny looking hairstyles. Photo by SRWHMG Photographer Debra Mykitiak and Cindy Pope. These decorations in their manes and tails are actually burrs from the cocklebur plant. These plants are native to ...
December 5th We had a wonderful time at the Apache Junction Winter event and we are really getting in the Christmas spirit together! It is great to connect with our local supporters and to earn a little money with our wild horse merchandise. The money goes right back into our important programs for the horses. ...
December 3rd The SRWHMG keeps track of every single Salt River wild horse from the time they are born to the time they die. That's why we have so many "tales" to tell. This tiny foal was born on a day when we had prayed for rain, it was the first thing he felt on ...
November 30th, Giving Tuesday 2021 Will you support SRWHMG this #GivingTuesday? Donate Today. Thank you!
November 26th Randi Senzer Najac | Salt River Wild Horses - Advocates "Little Miss Bubbles looking so grown earlier this week..." "Yes, we would rather see two foals each year grow up wild and free, than have 100 foals born, destined for a sad fate." - Simone Netherlands, president of SRWHMG.
November 26th Consider to do some shopping that actually helps wild horses. Yes we have our own shop! We kept prices inexpensive and added very cute wild horse necklaces and you can even buy your Christmas cards there, or single greeting cards and hats that are very popular! Of course, our calendar is available there ...
November 25th A picture of a confused lead stallion, from our coalition partner the American Wild Horse Campaign. His family was just rounded up and even while he avoided capture, he will never see them again. He doesn't know what to do, because they were all he lived for. This kills us inside. And it ...
November 25th Check out how good he can chew again! We gave him a snack of alfalfa on his mat so that you can clearly see that he has good chewing action again without any discomfort! We are very sure that he feels thankful for his meals. In the wild he unfortunately would not have ...
November 25th Think of someone or something in your life and then imagine what your life would be like without them, and the feeling of gratitude will be with you all day. We cannot imagine our lives without these treasured horses we all love. We cannot imagine the river without seeing the special family bands ...
November 23rd Our non profit 501 (c) 3 organisation works hard to protect and humanely manage the Salt River wild horses so that all of the public can enjoy them for generations to come. The truth is the horses are still here, because of our campaigns, relationships and hard work, which we need to continue, ...
November 19th The horses stayed up late tonight, under the full moon, so peaceful. Goodnight everyone. SRWHMG.
November 19th Facebook seems to be totally discriminating the link to buy our calendar! Most of our followers have not seen it in their news feed. That's not right as these wild horses depend on a nonprofit organisation (us) to make enough money to be able to take care of them, keep them safe from ...
November 18th It is a spectacular, amazing piece of film, which we can really appreciate. It takes many hours of patience, watching and filming the horses and even more hours editing footage. While it may look super intense, please know that a wild horse has never died from battling another wild horse; it is is ...
November 18th Thank you for supporting the Salt River Wild Horses with the purchase of our wildly popular Calendar! All orders have been shipped and you will receive them even before Thanksgiving! We make this calendar every year, because we want to share their spectacular beauty and peace, but we also need to sustain our ...
November 18th Please join us in congratulating our Salt River Horse Liaison with the AZDA for graduating law enforcement yesterday! She is now a sworn Salt River Horse Officer. Congratulations, Makenzie! Earlier, we named a new foal in honor of her!
November 14th Thanks to your support for our hard work, to keep it that way. Did you know that buying our spectacular 2022 calendar will help pay for their humane management? It's so easy to buy right here. Do you still recognize this popular most adorable of 2019 foals? He now looks a lot different, ...
November 13th So we are posting this video for educational purposes and we will explain why. (note: This clip falls within legal rights of filming people on public lands.) Salt River wild horses are protected by State law and have a legal right to live in this 20,000 acre habitat. This is not a very ...
November 12th Come out to see us... SRWHMG will have a small booth at Fenders + Vendors tomorrow, November 13, 2021 from 10 am to 2 pm at Las Sendas Boulder Mountain Parke. Hope to see ya....
November 11th Happy Veteran's Day! Respect and honor to all veterans past and present from SRWHMG.
November 10th Lieutenant Chad Brackman of our Lake Patrol division (the heros of the Tonto National Forest) was struck and killed this morning in Scottsdale. The Lake Patrol division serves the lower Salt River, so we see them often, doing heroic things like rescuing people out of the river etc.. Our hearts go out to ...
November 5th 11:25AM Batman update! Stay tuned in the next half hour. Click "see first" on our page so that Facebook will show you our updates!! SRWHMG. Watch the video on Facebook 12:58PM 👉 Batman Update: We did our best to document and explain Batman's veterinary and dental procedure. 🤚Warning: do not watch if ...
November 2nd Wild horses contribute a great deal of positive elements to the environment they live in. They are the creators of the mesquite forests, which serve as protective shaded resting areas for themselves as well as all other wildlife and birds. They then also landscape these forests by hedging the mesquite trees from the ...
October 31st They are scary good.. and because our cause is so important, we are running a SPECIAL this Halloween and all week. Buy 3, get 1 of these spooktacular calendars completely free! Now you can be all set for the holidays early. The more you buy, the more you support the horses. Thank you ...
October 30th This LIVE stream is taken with a super telephoto lens over 100 feet away by Drew Hastings. The horses are having an amazing eel grass feast ( before it dries up.) Amazing footage! Thank you for your support. SRWHMG. Watch the video here!
October 30th Calling for change. Sorry for the grossness, we promised we would be back to show you what happens when the Salt River goes below 100CFS. (Cubic Feet per Second). Dead fish and rotting eelgrass everywhere. Not exactly the beautiful recreational haven it should be. It is just highly unnecessary. We are still calling ...
October 27 at 1:29 PM · The river is at 480 today, horses are still eating River eelgrass. A beautiful morning on the lower Salt River! October 28 at 9:59 AM · Today and tomorrow, Simone will be back to do a live feed around 11 am AZ time, in order to document the lowering of the Salt River by SRP and the effects it ...
October 26th The river is still at 768 CFS today. Here is a picture of all the "other" amazing wild animals that depend on the Salt River and it's aquatic food supply. Our point being that the horses are not the only ones to suffer when SRP reduces the water to 8 CFS. This ecosystem ...
October 24th Sadly according to SRP , (Salt River Project) this is the last day of 800 CFS (Cubic Feet per Second) in the Salt River and it will be at 8CFS (1%) by October 30th. #Srp #srpconnect Why? Because they switch the river system from the Stewart Mountain dam to the Bartlett dam during ...
October 24th 😪We are so sad for this gorgeous bobcat and so much other wildlife that gets killed on Bush Hwy. Fortunately, ever since the forest service fencing has been up, no horses have gotten hit, which we are very happy about. But because horses no longer can cross the road, they've lost the south ...
October 23rd Today is national "make a difference day" and we want to thank you all for making a difference with us! We may sometimes ask you to thank a legislator, or write an email to SRP, or write a public comment, or share an important alert. It is because all of us on our ...
October 22nd We had a meeting that included the president of SRP, the vice president, two board members plus their hydrologists. On our side it included our lobbyist Steve Bloch, our Salt River horse Liaison Makenzie and, of course, our president Simone Netherlands. We are sad to report that we were not successful, and we ...
October 21st We have long advocated for fertility control over roundups. Humane management over removals. We are proving that it works and all of the public of Arizona is happy that the Salt River wild horses are still here. Without our succesful fertility control program they wouldn't be. We have had lots of help from ...
October 20th Watch the update on our Facebook Page We want to thank our amazing supporters who make it possible for us to find space for one more Salt River wild horse, who deserves humane treatment. Batman had a very good first rescue day. He ate and drank good and had a very good nap. ...
October 18th As most of you know, we've been monitoring old Batman in his aging and deteriorating condition, and he was hanging inthere, keeping up with his band. We figured he wanted to stay wild and free until the bitter end, that is how old wild horses die, and it's completely natural. He showed amazing ...
October 18th We are calling for a vital change for the ecosystem. We are calling for a minimum of 100 CFS (Cubic Feet per Second) from SRP (Salt River Project) to prevent the die-off of the eelgrass. But it's not just for the horses, it is sorely needed for the entire ecosystem, including the willows ...
October 17th Watch video on Facebook LIVE : Salt River wild horses enjoying life and eelgrass. Unfortunately next week the river will be turned off by SRP. : ((
October 15th 🌟Spotlight on a very resilient stallion 🌟 🐴Wind is a chestnut stallion who broke his leg back in 2014. It was broken so badly that volunteers of SRWHMG thought at the time, he might not survive. Then, Wind disappeared. The worst was feared, that he went off alone and died. Miraculously, he reappeared ...
October 9th Beautiful stories of love happen on the Salt River every day, and many great photographers appreciate these social bonds between wild horses and write about it on our Advocates page, for people who may not be so lucky to see wild horses a lot. We call these family interactions "herd dynamics", also nicknamed ...
October 7th Have you contacted SRP to ask for 100CFS minimum for the lower Salt River? Thank you! If not, would you take just 5 minutes to do this tomorrow? We need to drown the SRP corporate board in emails and calls. Pun intended. Sticking to an environmentally responsible minimum of 100 CFS, would only ...
October 3rd Because of the recent rains we have ended the feed program for the Salt River wild horses. The feed program was a hardship for our organization, but it prevented hardship and starvation of the horses. It got them through the long-lasting drought in Arizona. Therefore the abundant eelgrass in the river is currently ...