L.A. Trippin’

The Mission: To protect and preserve America’s wild horses as a living national treasure in a publicly accessible and ecological balanced environment with other wildlife for future generations.

The Goal: Increase public awareness of the genetic, biological, and social value of America’s wild horses through pack trips on the sanctuary, publications, mass media, and public outreach programs.

Continue to develop a working, replicable model for the proper and responsible management of wild horses in their natural habitat.

Demonstrate that wild horses can co-exist on the open range in ecological balance with many diverse species of wildlife, including black bear, bobcat, mountain lion, wild turkeys, badger, and gray fox.

Collaborate with research projects in order to document the intricate and unique social structure, biology, reversible fertility control, and native intelligence of the wild horse.

A Short History: In 1978 the Wild Horse Sanctuary founders rounded up almost 300 wild horses for the Forest Service in Modoc County, California. Of those 300, 80 were found to be un-adoptable and were scheduled to be killed at a government holding facility near Tule Lake, California

Rather than allow 80 wild horses living on public land to be killed, the founders of the Wild Horse Sanctuary made a major life decision right then and there to rescue these unwanted horses and create a safe home for them. And just as quickly, they launched a media campaign to bring attention to the plight of these and hundreds of other wild horses across the west that eventually led to a national moratorium on killing un-adoptable wild horses.

The Sanctuary is located near Shingletown, California on 5,000 acres of lush lava rock-strewn mountain meadow and forest land. Black Butte is to the west and towering Mt. Lassen is to the east. The current location features better accessibility for the public, a milder winter climate with more natural cover, and other benefits for the horses.

It proved to be a heavy financial and emotional burden to create an alternative to the slaughter of these animals.

How can you help?
You can sponsor a horse, adopt one, make a donation or call the office (530 - 335-2241) for volunteer work. Because of the fires a part of the fence is down and needs to be repaired.

Please check the websites through the links on the right.

(the horses on the picture are from Portugal. For copyright reasons I only use my own photographs on this site)

Thanks! Have a great week!