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Today is national make a difference day and we have a beautiful wild horse necklace on sale, so you can help us make a difference! 100% of proceeds go into our important programs that help keep the Salt River wild horses in their habitat!

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This guy, his name is Arco, but it should be Perseverance.

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This guy, his name is Arco, but it should be Perseverance. Monday, 22, Feb
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Thank you for all you do to keep the wild horses safe. It is to bad people only know how to leave litter instead of picking up after themselves. Clean up after your self so we will be allowed to continue to there!

Makes me nervous to think these disrespectful people are out there playing with their guns around the horses. Is that legal?

There's areas that you're allowed to go shooting out there however everyone should pick up after themselves. Thank you guys for your hard work.

Lack of respect for our country.

Humans ruin everything!🤬

why do people always hurt animals

thank you, thank you thank you, God bless you

Ridiculous

Thank you for all your hard work! Volunteers are do awesome!

Thank you for all you do.

Amen!!!

How very sad and disrespectful. Kudos to those doing the clean-up. Is there any way for authorities to get some of the people doing the illegal activities? A few stiff fines or worse might make some people think twice.

Thank you for all the hard work..It is shameful to see this...💔

Job well done warriors!

It is shameful that people have no respect...wonder what their homes look like...thank you for all your efforts...

What ashame... I have visited from upstate NY with Family and this is a favorite of mine. The forest area is beautiful and people should respect the land and the wildlife.

Thankful for all the hard work done🙏🏼👍🏼 I’m excited to get involved supporting these efforts and supporting the organization once I’m an official AZ resident. I just don’t understand people that are so inconsiderate to litter and leave debris like that all over.

Thank you for cleaning up, I just don’t understand how people are so disrespectful of the earth 😔

People are such slobs.... Thank you so much for your hard work. ☺

Good work. Sad to see disrespect but thankful your volunteers are out there. Lead on 🤠

Clean it up people. If you want to see the horses, go. But don't leave trash. No target shooting. Just stay a safe distance and enjoy the magestic wild Salties. This is just disgusting and you are ruining it for others and making it unsafe for the horses. Shameful.

Humans should be banned until they show respect for nature!!!!

Wish I were nearer to help! Thank you💕💕

WTF????? Why isn’t this being monitored?

Thank you all for everything you do!

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🗑Some areas of the Tonto National Forest are becoming so shamefully trashed. This morning our volunteers tackled an area where the horses love to hang out, but even if there was grass, it is dangerous to graze here, because of the glass and bullets everywhere! FYI this is not part of our job description; horse management is in our title, not waste management, but we cannot help but worry, what will our forests look like years from now?? FYI, this is a non target shooting area! These are our winnings for today, Thank you dear SRWHMG volunteers! ... See MoreSee Less

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Thank you for picking up others trash since they cannot do it themselves.

Thank you to all the volunteers. I know this isn’t part of your job description. But your actions make it so much safer for the horses. I figure if they spoke human they’d tell you thank you to. Next time you see one of the regulars hanging out in this area and they give a slow blink and half closed eye for a moment...accept it as horse for thank you.

Thank you everyone for a nasty job well done. Our National Forests and Wild Horses should have a clean environment to graze and roam. We Americans seem to have no regard for our natural resources. Let’s do a better job. 🌟. 🌟. 🇱🇷

Thank you all for cleaning it up for the safety of horses and other wildlife and for all the visitors to the river. All you SRWHMG volunteers are selfless, amazing, wonderful people. 💪🐴🐎💜

This happens all over the country unfortunately. It's so sad and disgusting that people simply cannot pick up their trash or take it to a waste mgt facility. These are also people that don't care and lazy.

Thank you to the amazing volunteers! ❤️ It’s terrible the amount of trash people leave. We try to take trash out when we paddle the Salt River.

Can't wait until our new found forest visitors will go back to visiting Disneyworld and other more trasheable places in urban areas.

Awful, thank you for picking all this up. It seems to happen everywhere anymore.

What is wrong with people!?! No respect for the land and probably their home, too!

Recycle the metal it could pay for some food for the animals. It might not be much unless you hang onto it and wait for prices to go up.

What is wrong with people who trash our lands? Is it a genetic disorder?

Thank you for All that you do! If everyone cared as much what a different world we would live in.

How sad that people think it’s ok to dump their trash anywhere they want. Thank you all so much for making it better for all of the wild life in the forest. You guys are the best ♥️

Thank you so much for caring. Post a clean up day ahead of time. Maybe, some of us could help you guys.

So sad that people deliberately trash a area. Shooting in an area that’s off limits? Why?? So glad there are kind and caring folks out there to help clean these areas . Nature, the horses, and all wildlife deserve better.

It’s a shame, as we become operational, we are planning on doing the same, it’s not our responsibility, it’s not in our contract, we do it because if no one does, it will affect us all. We see a lot of people out on the wash target shooting, didn’t know it’s not allowed, I always thought Federal land is prohibited to shoot on

I have seen how gross people have left the area. My teen children take a bag with us when we hike to get trash. But nasty stuff is left in the water and on paths People are hygienically challenged all the way around

Sad and angry both,to bad can’t IDENTIFY owners,back up on there front lawn open end gate,dump it and see how they like it😁

Thank you! People are so disrespectful. If we each pick up what we see, and leave nothing behind the horses would probably really appreciate it.

It is sad that so many people have such a disregard for the environment. Trash thrown everywhere.

What a shame. If we lived down there, we'd pitch in to help. It's been quite a few years since we lived down there, but I don't ever remember it being this bad.

So perhaps I’ll start carrying a garbage bag when I’m in the area several times a week with my camera... there are plastic bottles all along the river... 😞

I would love to help clean these areas up if you need volunteers! Please advertise and post on Facebook dates and times!!!

Thank you all you do on behalf of your love for the wild horses. I will never understand the selfishness and entitlement of people who litter and don’t discard their garbage responsibly. :(

Thank you for all you do! Everywhere I hike I'm seeing more and more trash, now including face masks, scattered everywhere. Sadly many people have no respect for nature or the wildlife who live there.

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This guy, his name is Arco, but it should be Perseverance. He is missing one eye completely, and has a corneal ulcer/scar in the other one. He recovered from a grody looking abcess on his head just last month, and he recovered from a fractured shoulder a few years ago. Yet still, the bachelors are learning, that you better not treat him like he's handicapped!
Zoom in on his left eye and you'll see it is just pink skin in his eye socket. Wild horses are amazing. (No worries, this horse is on our permanent "watch" list. It means we monitor him and make sure he's OK all the time.) SRWHMG.
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$This guy, his name is Arco, but it should be Perseverance. He is missing one eye completely, and has a corneal ulcer/scar in the other one. He recovered from a grody looking abcess on his head just last month, and he recovered from a fractured shoulder a few years ago. Yet still, the bachelors are learning, that you better not treat him like hes handicapped! Zoom in on his left eye and youll see it is just pink skin in his eye socket. Wild horses are amazing. (No worries, this horse is on our permanent watch list. It means we monitor him and make sure hes OK all the time.) SRWHMG. Photo by SRWHMG Rick Blandford$

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Thank you for Arco’s story. He has had his ‘challenges’ but seems to have overcome them nicely! 🙌🏻 Thanks for watching out for him and others.

Incredible survival instincts. Arco is amazing and I’m so thankful for the SRWHMG who watch over him ♥️

Animals are amazing with injuries, etc. Glad you are watching out for him as well. Yes, can definitely see he has an issue with that left eye.

He reminds me of a Willie Nelson song “Tougher Than Leather”.....

All animals have NO PITY!! They are all strong in their own ways!! 😊❤️

Love to hear their stories! I have a BLM mustang and they are truly amazing animals❤️❤️

I think he deserves that name change!! Great photo!!

Spunky stallion and dedicated volunteers

which one is he?

Love looking at the picture/reading the posts thank you

Love these beauties! Great photography!

You all are AWESOME!

Can you somehow get him and treat the eye?

Incredible photo!

chng.it/cZyhRyNp Please share this it’s to bring awareness for the wild horses were being killed in Arizona

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He’s a very strong looking guy when you get to see him in action. I love him ❤️

Wild horses and their ability to “fight”through their injuries, pain and even blindness. Way to go Arco, show these youngsters whatcha got! Thank you SRWHMG for monitoring these incredible horses.

He has been on a helluva journey. Love the guy. Thanks Simone Netherlands , the AZDA, TNF and the many volunteers who watch after him and all the wild horses.

Arco is one tough dude!! He managed to overcome and adapt with the loss of his eye...and he's still wild and free.❤ SRWHMG, many thanks for keeping watch over these beautiful horses. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

He is lucky to be at Salt River where there are no roundups. If he was captured anywhere else, they would shoot him because of his blind eye and past injuries. Thank goodness for your organization! I wish all Mustangs were taken care of like you do! Stopping the roundups and implementing cooperative agreements between advocacy groups and the local governments as you do so successfully needs to be the goal of everyone. Herd management can be very humane and kind.

Will he be ok out there on his own??? Kinda having rough spot. Needs his eyes to keep up safe and sound ?♥️♥️♥️

Can’t imagine the paun he is in with that eye ulcer. Poor guy.

Will Arco be ok out there with only one eye? Will he lose the other eye as well? Thank you so much for looking out for these beautiful horses!!! I love the pictures of them and have always wanted to go out and see them. I'm now rethinking that. I don't want to get in their way during this breeding season.....or any time.

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