Deerwood Ranch Wild Horse Ecosanctuary
We are the very first BLM-certified Wild Horse EcoSanctuary. What this means is that we are private land owners approved by the BLM to care for wild horses. Deerwood Ranch is a family owned operation that has been used for cattle ranching for over 30 years.
Mustang Valley Sanctuary
Our ranch provides a haven for rescue horses and for vulnerable members of our community including veterans, children, and domestic abuse survivors. Our programs aim to offer healing, growth, and hope to all who visit through the power of the human-animal bond.
Wild Love Preserve (WLP)
WLP engages public and private lands to address all facets of regional wild horse conservation on home turf, from collaborative work on the range, to those horses permanently removed from the wild by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
High Sierra Wild Horse Sanctuary (HSWHS)
HSWHS was established to help provide a safe haven for equines who were abandoned or abused. The Sanctuary is dedicated to the protection and preservation of wild mustangs and burros whether the equines reside at the ranch or are placed into foster care. To successfully promote this endeavor, it requires the knowledge and experience to […]
Wild Horse & Burro Program Funding FY2024
The Senate Interior Appropriations Committee has included language in its Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) funding package which helps the management of America’s wild horses and burros.
The Pryor Mountain Wild Horses
The history of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horses is not well known. There are accounts of the wild horses being present in the late 1800s, and many people believe that there were wild horses in the Pryor Mountains in the early to mid-1700s. At the Center, we believe the herd is descended from Spanish horses […]
Ridgecrest Regional Wild Horse and Burro Corrals
Established in 1982 in cooperation with the China Lake Naval Weapons Station and Death Valley National Park, this facility supports wild horse and burro management activities throughout the three-state region of Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona. Here are 22 wild horse and burro herd management areas located throughout California.
Off-Range Corrals
The BLM maintains a large network of permanent off-range corral adoption and purchase centers to facilitate the placement of wild horses and burros into private care through the Adoption and Sales Programs. Each off-range corral varies in its operating hours and how it conducts an adoption.
Wild Horse and Burro Program
The Bureau of Land Management manages and protects wild horses and burros on 26.9 million acres of public lands across 10 Western states as part of its mission to administer public lands for a variety of uses. The Wild Horse and Burro Program’s goal is to manage healthy wild horses and burros on healthy public […]
Adoptions and Sales
The BLM works to place excess animals into private care through its Adoption and Sales Programs as well as successful partnerships with organizations across the nation. Many have found it personally challenging and rewarding to adopt or purchase a wild horse or burro. It is a chance to care for, and then own, a part […]
On a quest to see wild horses in America
The world outside my hotel room window in Casper, Wyoming, was bright and blue. Sunny. Gorgeous. But it was -9 degrees, a brisk day for the locals compared to the -35 temps the days before. For me, a beach blonde millennial from Florida, it was another world.
Congress tells BLM: Fewer roundups, more humane fertility control
Congress took decisive action to prioritize humane wild horse and burro management practices over controversial helicopter roundups. President Joe Biden signed into law a $460 billion package of fiscal year 24 spending bills on Saturday, March 9, narrowly averting a government shutdown. Among the provisions was a significant spending cut for the Bureau of Land […]
