The “bad boys” aren’t done testing us yet!😅
Just one day back, and they proved their reputation again, they traveled 4 miles back, crossed the road and ended up at the Marina!
💚 THE “BAD BOYS” ARE SAFE! 💚
After a few nerve-wracking days on the highway, our infamous foursome — Centurion, Dreamer, Charlie, and Pacer — are finally back where they belong behind safe boundary fencing.( in the northern mountain quadrant, or NMQ for short.) 🐎
As the River Flows: Robin
We have many old warriors who fit—or have fit—into this category, and we will tell their stories. But the story of the old warrior could not be told without this stallion.
HORSES ON THE ROAD – SLOW DOWN!
Our “Bad Boys” — Centurion, Dreamer, Charlie, and Pacer — have been roaming the dangerous stretch of Bush Hwy between Water Users and the Saguaro Lake Marina and Butcher Jones. This is farther than they usually go and the last unfenced part of Salt River horse habitat. The grass is greener here, literally, thanks to …
🌟 We’re reaching milestones on our pages and we want to thank you!!
Our public Facebook page, is at 186,000 of YOU! Our Advocates page reached 100,000 this week also! 🎉
Helping Wild Horses Find Their Way Home 🐎
A huge thank you to the Fountain Hills community for your vigilance, support, and compassion. It takes a village—and you showed up.
It’s Official! 💖 Our newest little miracle on the Salt River now has a name.
We couldn’t imagine one more fitting. Through last week’s thunderstorms, she stood strong and curious beside her loving family.
As the River Flows: Until this old warrior, too, is called home.
Many of our volunteers have been with us for over 10 years, so we asked some of them, who their “first love” was when they joined us. This is the precursor to our first story next week.
🌧️A Stormy Welcome to Our First 2025 Foal! 🌧️
We are overjoyed to introduce the newest member of the Salt River Wild Horse Herd! 🎉 Time for A Fundraising Name Vote!
From Starving to Safe — DaVinci Has Found His Forever Home!
They found him starving, confused and ready to get out of the desert — and brought him to the SRWHMG Headquarters and safety.
25 Arizona wild mustangs brought to the Bowie Auction!
Our hotline received a heartbreaking call from Nirvana Mustang Sanctuary — Jackie Hughes from Rail Lazy H has brought 25 Arizona wild mustangs to the Bowie Auction right now! We feel compelled to stand with Nirvana Mustang Sanctuary.
As the River Flows: “Behind a great stallion is a great lieutenant”
Serta has had his band for several years, and his lieutenants, One Knee, and Surfer Dude, have been right by his side.
Happy birthday to our very own Debra Mykitiak!
We are family here at the SRWHMG so have a most awesome birthday Debra M… We love ya ..
We’ve had several questions about how the horses fared during Friday’s torrential downpours.
Some horses—especially when temperatures are warm—actually seem to enjoy the rain, sometimes even rolling in the wet sand or mud.
The death of a bandmate… and the funeral that follows.
You may have noticed that many of our recent posts have focused on family and emotion. Today, we continue with that theme.
Humane Management: When suffering won’t end on its own, and we are authorized to step in, we will.
Our beloved wild rescues came to us from desperate situations and with time and healing become happy little family bands. That now live safe, happy lives surrounded by care and love from our SRWHMG Care Team.
We Are Family!
Just another band of horses you could say, but when you deepen your understanding of herd dynamics, you can see how extraordinary each family is.
We are sad to report another loss on the Salt River.
A young stallion, just 6 years old named Cadence was found deceased today.
Community Support in Action!
Recently, thanks to the generosity of All American Rentals, we were able to complete improvements at our SRWHMG headquarters.
Grab your coffee… we are back with our Friday “As the River Flows”
To emancipate: to release from parental control and responsibility.
Announcement
Our president, Simone Netherlands, is finally taking a well-deserved 3-week break. 🌿✨
🌊 Meanwhile, on the Salt River…
Inspector’s band was peacefully snorkeling for eelgrass when this … well, let’s just say quite selfish human being … decided to disturb not only their peace, but also the peace of many onlookers. 😠
✨ Wind Has Arrived ✨
The beloved Salt River stallion with the old injury is in his forever home 💙 Thank you donors and supporters! Thank you volunteers, and thank you Simone for the update.
Salt River stallion Wind 💨 Rescue Part 2. This part of his journey is all about patience, trust, and comfort.
Because it was too hot to transport him all the way to Prescott on rescue day, Wind made a little layover at our Beeline facility 🏡. Here, he’s slowly getting used to people, and we’ve started his gentling process — always on his terms.
Happy Birthday to one of our longest standing volunteers, Pam Buschbacher!
Pam has been with us ever since February of 2015, that’s almost 11 years of spending every free minute she has!
🌟 Rescue for Wind! 🐴
Ten years ago, a brave Salt River stallion named Wind broke his front leg. Against all odds, he not only survived—he thrived. Wind healed, adapted, raised a family, and defended his band with strength and dignity.
Your generosity stocked our feed room with grain for our Salt River Rescues!
Join the impact—Tractor Supply cards make it easy to help!
🚨These horses are counting on us!
You know we’ve always walked the walk for the Salt River wild horses—and we know you do too, and it’s no easy feat.
🌎 The Bigger Picture
We’ve been quiet on social media lately—hard at work on the important proposal for the Salt River wild horses. (We also don’t use auto-generated posts here—you always get the real us!)
📹 A piece of Salt River horse history you might not know.
In this exclusive testimonial, a former Tonto National Forest supervisor confirms an important part of Arizona’s history: Before 1971, the Salt River wild horses were managed under federal law, on the Sunflower Allotment, in the TNF, as part of the Forest Service’s multiple-use mandate.
🥰 We love you dear supporters!
We want you, our supporters, to understand that while we cannot say too much until after the state has made its decision, our passion is no less strong.
🐴 From Starving to Safe — Help Us Name Our Handsome Survivor! 🐴
Thanks to YOU — our incredible supporters — he is now safe, gaining weight fast (he eats twice as much as our wild rescues!), and has a real chance at a happy future.
🆘POSSIBLE scenario: Over Half of the Salt River Wild Horses May Need a New Home — You Can Help by Sharing Far and Wide! 🐴
We find ourselves contemplating between a rock and a hard place right now, and we deeply appreciate the efforts of Mayor Lisa Borowski, as we responsibly prepare for any scenario.
🐴SRWHMG Rescues Emaciated Horse, Found In The Forest, Abandoned!
Domestic horses are not equipped to survive in the wild. Abandonment means slow starvation! Does anyone recognize this horse? He is pretty distinct.
💔 We cannot be on the news; all we can say is that our commitment to these horses is stronger than ever
We we cannot be on the news and talk about the RFP, because we are bidding for the new contract and there are procurement laws we will not break.
💎 Diamond Turns 10…We almost just forgot, because we are so busy trying to find solutions to keep his herd safe, again! 💔
On July 31st, 2015, a beautiful wild foal was born to Sapphire and Shadowfax, we named him Diamond. —On that fateful day the Forest Service posted the impound notice for all of the Salt River wild horses! Can you believe that is 10 years ago? We had 7 days to save the Salt River wild …
BREAKING: Scottsdale Mayor Considers Sanctuary for Salt River Wild Horses 🐴💚
Just in case.
Check out this beautiful video by Experience Scottsdale!
Mesa, Apache Junction, Fountain Hills, Scottsdale and Phoenix are all less than half an hour drive from the Salt River and all these cities and local communities benefit from their presence through tourism!
Navigating life with your best friends is so much better.
That’s what wild horses care about most, each other!
Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates – Neptune’s Story: A Case for Effective Wild Horse Management
Sharing a good post of a very similar situation of the pine nut wild horses who have just one foal this year. Great job pine nut wild horse advocates.
Run Forever Free Aquarius!
We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all of you for the fifteen thousand responses and three hundred thousand views regarding the passing of Aquarius.
They kept Calling for Her…Hoping She Would Get Up, But She Was Gone 💔
Wild horses are so bonded to each other, so social and sentient, and they mourn just like we do.
Like our Facebook page, SRWHMG- Wild Rescues for daily updates!
If you like to see daily updates of our rescued Salt River wild horses this is the page!
💔 A Salt River Legend Has Passed — Remembering Aquarius 💔
Yesterday, someone reported a horse lying still on the riverbank thinking she was already deceased. We responded immediately—it was Aquarius. She was alive, but clearly not well.
📚 History Lessons – Part 1 📰 “Phoenix Concern Eliminating Wild Horses From State”
In 1927, a newspaper article revealed the industrial-scale Elimination of Arizona’s wild horses by the Arizona Reduction Works, a horse slaughter plant in Phoenix.
A Closer Look at Red Wind: An Aging wild Stallion Fighting to survive. (Pt. 1 and 2)
As Red Wind ages his teeth wear down… and slowly, he stopped being able to eat properly. That’s usually a death sentence for wild horses.
P.A.W 4 The Foundation: Colt With Injured Leg at Cleburne Auction — But How Did He Get There?
P.A.W: This colt, tagged #291 and listed as an Alpine wild horse, is being auctioned tonight. We don’t recognize him or 4 others, and there is no Forest Service notice of sale.
🐎✨ Did you know today is National I Love Horses Day?
Let’s talk about why the Salt River Wild Horses are so loved—and yet, also discriminated against, scapegoated, and devalued by some.
🐴 FROM AUCTION TO PEACE 🌿
Meet Zander, born wild and free in March of 2024 in the Apache Sitgreaves national Forest, documented by SRWHMG and the Alpine Wild Horse Advocates.
Once again, Jackie Hughes and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest are back at it.
They’re sending Alpine horses to slaughter auctions — and it’s absolutely deplorable.
🚨Total Outrage! Auctioning Tonight, Please Help!
We have enough to save just 3 out of the 6 Alpines! Please help to share for the other 3, as there are only 2 hours left!
Wild horses should get more credit for all the good things they do for the environment!
Please spread this reel! Thank you.
A great documentary is in the works!
The new RFP has yet to be released, so we are waiting like everyone else to see what happens next.
🌞 It’s hot in Arizona — please stay cool, and also be cool to the Salt River Wild Horses! 🐴💦
Here’s what’s NOT cool when visiting the very cool Salt River.
🌞 It’s hot in Arizona — please stay cool, and also be cool to the Salt River Wild Horses! 🐴💦
Here’s what’s NOT cool when visiting the very cool Salt River.
Have you watched this spectacular footage?
The mare, Lady Gallahad, and her foal, Constance, remain happy, wild, and free on the Salt River to this day.
Let’s take a minute to breath and notice the good things still on this earth.
Share the innocence, love and tranquility between these brothers and their watchful Dad. And then renew your vow to help protect it, just please share and help us protect it!
When Your Own “Defense” Becomes the Smoking Gun 🔥
In a clumsy attempt to prove that JH is a compassionate and law-abiding steward of wild horses, her proxy John Mack recently posted a video on YouTube. The goal? To prove that “everything you’ve heard about Jackie Hughes is not true.” But ironically, the video only added more proof of her unlawful actions—violations of FSrules as well as her contract. (Her contracts together cost the tax payer close to 2 million)
Why Wild Horses Make Incredible Dads 🐴👨👧👦
Wild stallions are more than just majestic symbols of freedom—they’re also loving, devoted and fiercely protective fathers.
💞Not a job too daunting, not a mile too distant and not a challenge she can’t overcome!
Karen makes a profound impact in our organization, and it’s her Birthday!!
💞🐴Happy Friday, Happy Bear Update!
It’s in moments like this, that we know without a doubt, that all the hard work is worth it.
😨You have to watch this if you want to understand what really has been going on.
Unlike Jackie and Mack, who work hard to portray themselves as holy saints, John Koleszar is at least forthright about his intentions.
We like to help small startup rescues, who have their heart in the right place.
Charlotte here, is asking for help so she can buy the pony who was the companion to her very sick baby she purchased at Bowie this weekend. That baby is still in the hospital.
A commendable example of how to safely backpaddle and avoid wild horses that are crossing!
Great job, ladies! Thank you!
This goes out to all of you who are giving the Salt River wild horses a voice!
Here is how you can help.
This is the story of Bear. We can be quiet no longer, please help!
“I own all these horses” said Jackie Hughes. See this never before seen footage of what actually happened!
JH tried to Euthanize Shadowfax, back when she was our Salt River horse liaison.
Unfortunately she has lied about it for years, to everyone and claims it was Simone instead.
👇The Salt River horse situation explained, please share!
We are only 300 away from our goal on our petition, and only 300 away from 175.000 followers! Please invite your friends to follow, like and sign, Thank you!!
Explaining the difference between Sanctuary wild horses and wild horses
These are the rescued Alpine wild horses at Nirvana Mustang Sanctuary and it was wonderful to see them at such peace, and spend quality time with them.
We are in Texas at Nirvana Mustang Sanctuary!
It’s expansive 3000 acre location is an absolute wild horse paradise. We are here with our field team members and our veteranarian, to geld Alpine stallions, so they can join the rest of the Alpine herd, who are enjoying their regained freedom so much. Plus of course we are also here to check on Tristan’s …
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.
Happy birthday Rick Blandford!!
While we are really crazy busy, we must not forget one of our Director’s birthdays!
There is no actual real science that justifies the aggressive removal of the Salt River wild horses.
Read here, be informed, and stay smarter than the average bear 🐻
The claim is that the horses “ruin” the environment.
We went across the street from Salt River horse habitat to show you who is ruining the environment.
Happy Birthday to our very own Director of Operations: Destini Rhone!!
🎊 We have 100 volunteers and, of course, we cannot post every single Birthday, but this one certainly cannot be skipped!
The future of the Salt River wild horses is up for bid!
This was our march at the capitol in 2016, the day the Salt River Horse Act was signed, the day we all thought they would forever be safe.
⚠️We need your help! 👉 Please make the calls and help to distribute these flyers! 🙏
⚠️We need your help! 👉We have laid out the situation clearly in these flyers, please make the calls and help to distribute them! 🙏
💃HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all mothers of all species!! 💕
We are not sure if this is why they are still together, but Coyote has not left his mothers side, ever since he was born in march of 2019, he is now 6 years old!
I was asking the wise Apache for his spiritual advice this beautiful morning.
He was responding attentively, but, someone thought she should photo bomb the whole thing…
We are pleased to share our big news with you. Check it out!
As we continue to challenge the removal of Salt River wild horses, we are also well-prepared to safeguard their well-being.
WHAT’S HAPPENING with the Salt River Wild Horses?
Upstanding Forest Supervisor, Neil Bosworth is retiring and the AZDA has new management. Here’s a synopsis.
3TV was receiving so many calls already that they wanted to know what was going on!
Thank you dear supporters! Simone explained what is happening.
Happy birthday to SRWHMG’s fearless leader…
It’s a day to celebrate a lady who always puts all wild horses and the Salt River wild horses first…
The Salt River wild horses themselves are waging some battles as well! Check it out!
Bobby and Silver are fighting over two mares. Silver even left his own mares in order to steal Bobby’s mares! It appears that none other than Rascal has his mares now.
There are once again clouds looming over the Salt River wild horses.
We need to concentrate on solutions.
May your Easter be filled with unbridled joy, just like these wild horses thriving in their natural habitat!
Wishing you this kind of happiness, on Easter and always.
Turn your shopping into saving wild horses!
Every cart you fill by joining Fry’s Community Rewards helps support the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group. 🛒✨
🎂🐴👉Help us celebrate another triumphant Salt River wild horse Birthday!
Our beautiful Wonder, was born one year ago today, March 27th, out of the magnificent mare Spring and his liver colored dad Lindor.