Wild Love Preserve

Wild Love worked with us through a mutual "angel" to eventually take several of our 50 plus wildies. One of our younger groups is less acclimated to people than most our rescues and needs access to more room to roam. They can happily live wild at Wild Love.
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Andrea Maki is a very special lady/artist who sold her home and studio to establish Wild Love Preserve. She has thrown herself into (often literally) backbreaking work every day since to save wild horses and give them a safe place to roam freely. How many of us would be willing to go without even running water for weeks? She has been able to put together a great team of like-minded men and women to help with the never ending work the sanctuary requires.
This nonprofit is worthy of praise! A contribution, if you’re able, would be not only greatly appreciated but also spent wisely and well.

I have supported Wild Love Preserve from the moment I bought 5 of their red rubber bracelets from a pet store years ago! Horses are my love and wild horses are my spirit animals! I so very much value Andrea's vision and commitment to ensure these horses have a home and remain free!!! I adore the pics of the new babies, and the videos and photos of the happenings of Wild Love Preserve. Thanks to everyone involved, keep up the awesome work for these magnificent animals!
Cyndee N.

Wonderful place and organization. Was lucky enough to visit when horse's arrived from Challis and witness them enter their new home. Have also purchased items as donations, and all of the process was done very well and completed in a timely manner with upmost professionalism.

A worthy non profit to support. I really appreciate the love and care of wild horses here.

I joined the Wild Love Preserve group this year. I love to see the pictures and videos of the wild horses that Andrea provides for, at her sanctuary. If I lived in the US, I know I would be there volunteering and helping out. All of the wild horses/mustangs are awesome and Andrea continues to go above and beyond!!!

As a long time volunteer at a horse rescue, I am in a reasonably intelligent position to evaluate other equine rescue operations. That said, Andrea Maki’s drive, determination, perseverance and success in finding permanent acreage to house and preserve these mustangs is nothing short of remarkable.

Wild Love Preserve is a beautiful place. Set in a rugged valley along the Wild and Scenic John Day river, the land itself speaks to the heart. It is the landscape of all our Western stories, inhabited by the ghosts of the great explorers, noble cowboys and even the tragi-comic epic enacted by the cult of Rajneesh, who briefly built a communal "city" on land across the valley, inspiring a showdown with locals opposed to the cultural and literal invasion. It is a place for big stories. A perfect place to reclaim and return to it's natural state. To undo harm and create a better future. 10,000 acres, neglected and overused. There are now no roads across this landscape, few trails and fewer people. No trash, no cel service, no noise. To see a herd of 250 wild horses running up the hillside there invokes echoes of a time we sadly left behind. A last wild place. Andrea Maki, with the backing of donors. has secured this place for a noble purpose, surely. But when the work must be done, the horses protected, the encroaching poachers, regulations and disruptions dealt with, when the fences need to be erected and the natural water systems resurrected, the partnerships with neighboring landowners solidified to mutual benefit and the endless bills paid, it all comes down to hard work. Andrea is a hard worker, unstinting when it comes to her passion for the horses. She is a fearless, smart and unwavering leader for a foundation built by sweat equity. Those who visit or volunteer come away astonished at what she has been able to create and sustain. As a non-profit, Wild Love is an inspiration with all the right motives and goals, a worthy cause with good leadership. This is just the kind of non-profit, one that deserves wide recognition and support. I will continue to do all I can, and hope that others get on board. The work to benefit ratio is undeniable. And at the heart of it, re-establishing wild horses on a patch of paradise is a truly moving thing to support.

This rescue welcomed my mustang mare in with open arms when I was facing some very difficult and uncertain choices about her future. Even though I miss her, I can be at peace knowing that she is safe and well cared for while enjoying her freedom again. I look forward to being able to visit in the future!

Wild Love, Andrea, took in my challis mustang. He had a knee injury that left him a pasture pet. In his best interest we contacted wild love and she welcomed my boy with open arms. He is now running free with his family..

Amazing place!! Andrea knows what she's doing, she's a pioneer.

“All good things are wild and free” - Henry David Thoreau. Thanks to the timeless devotion of Andrea Maki and her commitment to Wild Love Preserve, the integrity of this iconic animal remains wild and free.

I have personally witnessed Andrea’s hard work, sacrifice and dedication to WLP. Her mission is lifelong, and the grandness of it will carry on for the benefit of future generations.

An advocate for wild horses rights, Wild Love Preserve deserves your attention and support! Founded by Andrea Maki, artist and activist, WLP has a mission to bring people together, uniting local communities with governmental agencies and environmental groups to protect horses’ rights and preserve their natural ecosystem. This nonprofit has been providing valuable education and outreach about the issues relating to wildlife conservation and promoting solutions to problems we often think of as unsolvable. Not only that, but Wild Love Preserve has also proved that it is action oriented by saving wild horses and securing land for them to roam free.

Inspired by her love of horses and the belief that we have a responsibility as humans to be caretakers of the world around us, Andrea decided to use her talents as an artist to educate people about the plight of wild horses in the United States. She learned about a loophole in the government’s policies for the management of the horses that would allow slaughtering of these magnificent animals an effort to control their growing numbers. Her goal was to educate people about the difficulties wild horses were facing and find ways to protect them.

In 2010, Andrea found fertile ground for her project in Challis, Idaho where her grassroots movement started to take on a new momentum in the protection of these wild horses and their environment. Wild Love Preserve began by adopting 21 mares with the goal of returning them to their home and setting them free. Working diligently with the local community, the BLM and other stakeholders Andrea pounded the pavement asking questions, listening to the concerns and problems of the local community, businesses and governmental agencies. She was determined to figure out a solution to the problem they all faced and wanted to find a way to make the horses an asset to the community in which they belonged. Wild Love Preserve succeeded in saving horses, as well as taxpayer dollars and was also able to directly inject money into the local community.

Andrea realized that the local community did not necessarily want these horses removed in roundups, they wanted the horses to be managed in a way that would control their growing numbers from overwhelming their natural environment and impeding on other needs of the community. It seemed our governmental legislations was also an issue, and the BLM was struggling at great cost to meet expectations. With her creativity and optimism Andrea developed a long-term comprehensive strategy to mitigate these problems by promoting a form of birth control utilizing PZP and remote darting with amazing success that slowed down the growth of the horse population.

Andrea’s devotion and hard work over the last decade has manifested a recent victory of finding a permanent home for over 200 wild horses on a beautiful parcel of land in Oregon that is fitting for these horses to roam free. Her herculean efforts over the years have managed to manifest this safe haven for Wild Horses but she deserves more recognition and support for all she has accomplished. Help Wild Love Preserve protect indigenous ecosystems, engage the local communities so that everyone benefits, spread the word and donate what you can today!

We continue to be impressed with the progress that Wild Love makes with its mission. My company and my family both contribute to this great non profit annually at minimum. More often when we can. There are so many causes deserving of our attention but Wild Love always stands out in our hearts.
It was great to see Wild Love finally, after so much hard work, land in a permanent home. Though the work Andrea Maki and her team does won't become any easier (it looks like they area actually working harder than ever!) by way of having this new home we are truly excited to see the possibilities and freedom this new chapter will hold! Keep up the amazing work Wild Love!!

Andrea is working hard to get Wild Love Preserve Ranch cleaned up and operational again for her wild mustangs. Working for Andrea getting her mustangs moved to their new home was a great experience. She is professional and wants the best care for her animals.

I have stepped back from my endorsement of this program. The mission statement is fine but the execution is problematic. I have studied this type of program for years and it is making the same mistake that has caused other similar programs problems. The program wants money from doners but does not want any practical involvement from volunteers. I have 22 years of hands on horse experience and have worked with her when she has allowed it, only twice, and was told I was a good team player. I also have my certification to dart horses for contraceptive purposes. But 80+% of the time I am told no when I asked to get involved directly with one excuse after another. It is one thing to work with stakeholders from a distance to get them to donate money, it is quite different to let qualified volunteers in and share a little time with the horses and this program simply will not let this happen. She also will have a problem if she keeps adding horses to the preserve as they will deplete the resources of the pasture and begin to require year around feeding. I have seen this happen with other programs and neither of these concerns I am expressing bodes well for the future.

FWIW I have taken in 3 feral/wild horses into my stable and done well with them. I rehomed 2 of them to very good homes. The third horse is now a permanent part of my stable, I understand that this program does not want this done with the horses in this Preserve but it shows that I can work with horses keeping myself safe as well as the horses. I did help her and several others dart horses in the Preserve in March 2021 and had the best accuracy record of anyone that day. However, this year she was too busy to call and let me get involved.

I wish the program well but am concerned.

I would highly recommend (Wild Love Preserve) for the thoughtfulness and caring that is given to the horses every year and throughout their life. It takes one person to make a difference, but it takes a village to keep it going. We need to save all animals for future generations to see and feel the compassion and the empathy of animals.

Andrea Maki and Wild Love Preserve have stepped up to the Challis wild horses in a way that no one has. As a long time lover of all things wild, with a particular soft spot for, and connection to, the Challis herd, I support the work of WLP.

Wild Love is a nonpartisan, public and private effort to provide a place for wild horses in Idaho. A place where there is conversation and compromise. It has been successful and a model of how things should be done--together.

I work an energy infrastructure company that has given grants to Wild Love. I wanted to know more about the work there and share it on our company's website. I was so impressed with Andrea and her dedication. The Bureau of Land Management said wonderful things about her and WIld Love. She's the real deal.
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I am an animal lover, and I think that it’s really important to let them live their most natural life. We should treat them with respect and honor the fact that they are superior beings in many ways. I believe that Wild Love Preserve does all of that. Their tireless efforts to help these beauties is truly honorable, and I believe in their movement!

I first noticed Andrea's photography and then was drawn to support her efforts by first responding to a spirited matching campaign backed by Stone Gossard( my favorite musician) . Andrea is passionate about not only giving these wild horses a stable place to live and thrive but engaging the public, conservationists, animal rescues and environmentalists as well. She is a great communicator and knows how to set an example that others striving to do similar work can follow. I wish her many ,many years of success to come.

I support the Wild Love Preserve because I am a big fan of Pearl Jam and their causes. It has been my experience that any nonprofit that the members of Pearl Jam support is worth while. I feel fortunate to be able to donate something for this very worthy cause. It's great that the horses benefiting from the Wild Love Preserve will be able to remain living free. Horses are beautiful animals and they should never be endangered or compromised in any way especially if they're wild.

What a beautiful day when upon a search for information about Mustang horses, I also discovered the Wild Love Preserve of Idaho . What a labor of love to coordinate , expand and maintain acres of land to keep Challis Wild Mustang horses free. It is a pleasure to support WLP and their mission. Andrea Maki is a true inspiration, and working from heart and soul has coordinated many individuals and organizations to see this dream come true.
Andrea and WLP can count on my continued support , and my heartfelt thank you to all who continue to preserve the freedom of Wild Horses for generations to come.

Don't let my role as "Donor" fool you. I don't have a lot of money to give. That's why my cash gifts are critical. Wild Love Preserve (WLP) and Andrea Maki as its visionary executive are an excellent "value!"
Along with their committed coalition of volunteers and stakeholders, WLP is a local model of sensible and sensitive coordination. WLP is uniquely frugal and respectful of every resource, including my donations.
Wild equines in America hold a unique position in hope and crisis. However, the intricate evolution of today's Wild problems can be seen to represent parallel challenges in many other contexts! The alchemy Andrea stands to create at WLP gives hope to community builders and problem solvers everywhere.
I am a horse owner. Not life-long, as many proclaim; rather, back to horses after maturing through other experiences. Horses know. They know how to live wild and how to live partnered with humans. WLP knows how to provide for the Challis nation members--horse and human. Please help.

Corona virus kept us from visiting this year. It was to be a destination vacation for myself, 2 daughters, and 18 year old twin granddaughters.
The work that Andrea does is awe inspiring and a true labor of love to keep these magnificent horses together with their families and care for all.
Hoping 2021 allows for my daughter, from PA., daughter and twins, from Ohio, to join me, in Idaho to visit Wild Love Preserve.

Against all odds and naysayers, Andrea Maki was able to bridge divides between diverse and opposing groups to spearhead collaborative efforts with the Idaho Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and disparate stakeholders. Wild horse and burro herds across America are currently at their greatest risk in decades, so we must strive for Andrea’s work to become a model for saving herds in other states as well.

Wild Love Preserve includes an innovative wild horse conservation program, conflict resolution, education platform, comprehensive range health fixed on sustainability, and the creation of its wildlife preserve in the heart of Idaho's wild horse country. This preserve currently serves as a permanent home to Challis-Idaho wild horses and will also accommodate future Idaho wild horses not otherwise adopted. Kindness, mutual respect, accountability, science, and education drive Wild Love's mission to protect and preserve western wild horses in their native habitats and nurture indigenous ecosystems. These efforts have turned Challis-Idaho wild horses into an asset for the community, region, and state.

Conflicts between wild horse and burro advocates and the Bureau of Land Management and other stakeholders, like ranchers, are rampant, causing acrimony and discourse that is detrimental to the greater good of helping the wild herds. After creating Wild Love Preserve, Andrea’s role has often been that of a mediator and negotiator, bringing together folks previously locked in opposition. These are the BLM, ranchers, environmentalists, wildlife biologists, wild horse advocates, youth employment groups, regional communities, and others.

I met Andrea Maki at a Fertility Control conference where she was a featured speaker who presented information on the Wild Love Preserve history and program. After speaking with her one on one, I confirmed the fact that we agreed on how to bring people together. I share her convictions that more can be gained by respectful and thoughtful sharing of opinions and scientific reasoning, with people who hold different views, than angry words.

Andrea Maki has made impressive, difficult inroads to understanding and cooperation between disparate groups. She has pioneered an all-inclusive model in wild horse conservation which has garnered national attention over the years and is serving as a framework for other western states. We must work to expand these concepts!

This is a story of one woman’s singular vision to protect and preserve the wild horses of central Idaho in their natural habitat. To bring that vision to life required the mission to become informed, mindful, and accepting of many other factors that were interconnected with the state, county, and individuals of the community. This inclusiveness spawned the collaboration necessary to now speak of shared goals, and to put into action a broader coalition that now encompasses “life on the range” for these once endangered horses.

Andrea Maki has a passion, and I can’t think of anyone who inspires me more to lend my support to than to her in her heartfelt determination to make her wildest dream come true.

Mickey Sweeney

The Challis HMA is a very special place where my husband and I love to search out and photograph the wild horses. Andrea Maki and Wild Love Preserve have been working for many years to protect and preserve the horses and their habitat by developing a working relationship with the BLM, wild horse advocates and local ranchers. This is a perilous time for wild horses, and I fear for their fate, so it's with a breath of fresh air that I support WLP and its successful and sane manner of working to save their lives.

The focus of Wild Love Preserve’s wild horse project in bringing all stakeholders together to work collaboratively with the Challis and Idaho BLM, is unique and imaginative and potentially opens the door to an entirely new paradigm for managing western wild horses. This model may change a great deal and we here at The Science and Conservation Center are excited about partnering with WLP in this effort. —Jay F. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D, The Science and Conservation Center

Wild Love Preserve is a non-profit to be emulated, with a focus not just on protecting our native landscapes and our native wild horses but also on the creation of lasting partnerships to truly bolster those protections. Andrea Maki recognizes the value of people- and how building trusted partnerships is a vital component of protecting our western landscapes. Her work deserves recognition, and I'm proud to be a supporter of her, and of Wild Love Preserve.

I met Andrea when she came to the Washington State Capitol to testify on a bill regarding horse slaughter and the transport of horses to Canada and Mexico. I was so impressed with her passion for horses. I learned about the Wild Love Preserve, and the work that Andrea is doing to protect wild horses in Idaho. She has already protected some of the wild horses, but there is so much more to do in protecting land where they can roam free. Andrea has been working with landowners in Idaho to get their support in protecting the horses.

Amazing non-profit work in this organization with all of the incoming funds going to help the wild horses, such an accomplishment. That Andrea Maki has been able to work with many different factions who typically are in opposition to each other and brought them to the table to find solutions and understanding of the various perspectives is nothing short of miraculous! Should be emulated in every public+private endeavor.

WLP’s mission integrates every facet of wildlife management into a well-designed engagement to better serve all interests in the cause for wild horses, rangeland health and the communities of the west. This organization has worked tirelessly to bring stakeholders together and deserves to be recognized for their dedication to, and honest pursuit of, a better system for all.

Wild Love Preserve and is mission are proof that one person can make a difference in the world. With her singular vision and passion, Wild Love Preserve founder and executive director, has taken the plight of the Idaho wild horses into her own hands and has built a STRONG coalition of supporters, businesses, opinion leaders, government agencies, etc. to all step up to the plate and work together to help save the wild horses. Truly an inspiration i every way imaginable. I will ALWAYS support Wild Love Preserve.

I work at Grapevine.org, a collaborative giving platform that unlocks expertise and helps donors make more of a difference together. We have featured funds of nonprofits that expert grantmakers put together and Wild Love Reserve was selected to be featured by Denis Hayes, one of the founders of Earth Day. We worked with Wild Love Preserve to help promote the fund and raise awareness, their team was amazing and incredibly responsive. We also had a great reception from our donors to the fund and Wild Love Preserves inclusion in it. We love working with Wild Love Preserve and will continue to do so in the future!

I've been supporting Wild Love for several years now. I am so impressed with how Andrea Maki has focused on collaboration and getting disparate groups to work together. This model of cooperation is solving a difficult problem and protecting both the horses and the environment. What a great project, and truly a model not only for other nonprofits, but also for society in general.

Seattle Native Andrea Maki had a dream to preserve and protect our vital wild places…and almost a decade ago, her dream became a reality. Since 2010, Maki's Wild Love Preserve has provided a home for some of the Gem States's most precious treasures: its wild horses. The organization is unparalleled in its efforts to provide humane, fiscally responsible ways to help America's wild horses, demonstrating that coexistence can be achieved through sustainable management while simultaneously protecting the lives of these horses and indigenous habitats, as well. I'm proud to support this compassionate, candid, consistent organization.

I met Andrea in person and her love for Mustangs is evident when her eyes light up as she starts speaking about her work with them. I am in awe of her work and all she does to keep theses horses safe. She is giving them a place to live and be safe in an environment that is natural for them.

Andrea has worked ceaselessly to bring different stakeholders together in order to enact necessary change to wild herd management in Idaho.
Her willingness to listen to all parties, think outside of the box, find middle ground, and ultimately make a positive difference- whether or not she gets credit for it- is what makes WLP stand apart from the rest.
This non profit is deserving of far more exposure and appreciation than it currently gets. WLP is truly a model for other non profits.

Andrea Maki is the Jane Goodall for wild horses! She has devoted her life since 2010 to care for 125 wild horses she adopted from the result of the Challis, ID BLM roundup. The alternative was for them to be shipped to long-term holding with a very bleak outcome - this wasn't an option. She has taken a different approach working closely with the BLM, ranchers and other stakeholders - creating a voice for the remaining wild Challis herd. She is close to landing a permanent sanctuary for her 125 head and hopes her efforts and new methods will help wild horses across the U.S. She is tireless in her dedication, she is selfless in her desire to make a difference and she is steadfast in her commitment to all these horses she deeply cares about. I have never met another person like Andrea, she is truly a one of a kind! All the "wilds" are lucky to have a fighter like Andrea working for their preservation!!!

In the middle of a complex, highly charged emotional and political struggle are the lives of thousands of wild horses, and thousands of acres of wild land. At the heart of that is Wild Love Preserve, working with unflagging commitment to protect the animals and the land in a way that brings people together instead of driving them further apart. I met Andrea Maki at the beginning of her journey, after she had made a promise to a group of captive wild horses that she was going to create a better way. Andrea's fortitude, compassion, dedication and creativity in the face of adversity are charting that course - for the horses, for all of us.

It started simply enough, a few years ago when a mutual Facebook friend requested some donation assistance to help feed some wild horses in Idaho during the winter, I was greatly intrigued and followed the link that was provided and discovered the Wild Love Preserve and it’s founder Andrea Maki.
I can still recall the thrill of seeing wild horses running off in the far away distance driving though Montana for the first time. I’d never seen anything so amazing before! For me it just doesn’t get more wild then seeing free mustang horses running on the open plane.
The believe the importance and magnitude of this Preserve is in excellent hands, it’s mission and founder have my complete trust to insure the solid future for these wild mustangs to remain wild. We all owe them and their ancestors an eternal debt of gratitude for helping to settle our Wild West!
I will continue to give to this critically important cause for our own humanity insuring sustainability with nature and the universe.

As a small non-profit organization in rural Idaho Youth Employment Program has found the need to create partnerships that share our values of hard work and education. Our mission of providing youth an opportunity to learn has been founded on working on public land resource management projects. We provide paying jobs for our youth to teach life skills of responsibility, accountability and team work. This work continues but we are working toward creating programming that will provide additional educational experiences. Working with partners in education and workforce training we are creating programs that result in credentialed job skills and continued education credits.

Youth Employment Program is a partner with Wild Love Preserve as we see the opportunity to engage our youth participants in unique and challenging issues and projects that include the science of the natural resource management field.

Wild Love Preserve's vision of a collaborative and holistic approach to wild horse management along with a large sanctuary home on deeded property has numerous unique opportunities for our youth to be involved and to learn.

As an environmental educator who works with horse owners teaching land management practices, I am excited about Wild Love Preserve because it's not just about holding and confining wild horses. The model proposed is one that looks at the whole native ecosystem and views wild horses as an indigenous, connected component of that system, seeking a balance. Wild Love Preserve offers an opportunity to explore new directions and new ways of managing this ecosystem. I look forward to being a part of the progress.

I found Wild Love Preserve while browsing the internet, and the discovery has been both inspiring and life-changing. I have witnessed what one person can do, watching Andrea Maki bring diverse groups together to find a compassionate and fiscally responsible solution to the question of how to protect and care for our wild horses. When I see people pulling together to protect these intelligent, beautiful animals, who are so vulnerable to our decisions, I am filled with hope for our world. In addition, as business owners (we own and operate hotels and a convention center in Idaho), it is clear that WLP is good business for Idaho. The new preserve will provide countless tourism and educational opportunities to Idaho residents and out-of-state visitors. When one also considers how many millions of dollars taxpayers have saved using this model, it is clear that this is a positive and sustainable solution that should be a model for wild horse management all over the country. Andrea is to be commended for her vision, hard work, and integrity. I'm in - I will support Wild Love Preserve in any ways that I can.

A few months back, I was watching a show where Wild Love Preserve was featured on Outdoor Idaho. It was the first time I had heard about the organization and at that moment, I was in love with Wild Love Preserve! Soon after the airing of that show, I had the privilege of meeting the woman responsible for such a brilliant idea and great organization...Andrea Maki. What an honor to know such a grounded and generous being. Her passion, dedication and love for our wild Mustangs shines through her in every way, especially in the sacrifices she’s made and continues to make each and every day. Her continued efforts never go unnoticed. I’m a huge supporter of Andrea and Wild Love Preserve. I look forward to helping her and the wild mustangs in any way I can. Because of Andrea, these horses get to live the way they’re meant to be...wild and free with their families. Thank you!

I’ve been supporting Wild Love Perserve for several years and will continue to so. I firmly believe in the work Andrea Maki is doing in order to preserve a piece of the American West Legacy

This organization has met the commitments made, earning trust and respect from stakeholders engaged on wild horse issues. It is presenting real and tangible ideas, and action, to solve problems. I am delighted that Wild Love Preserve is working on these issues right here in Idaho, and am proud to support them.

I’ve known Andrea Maki for many years and have long been impressed by her resourcefulness and tenacity. She has turned those talents to the mission of her wonderful organization Wild Love Preserve. I’m so impressed by her goal to protect native horses and her ability to bring together the ranchers, the BLM, and environmentalists to do so; working with disparate interests is really the key and its a model that should be used in other places and for other causes. I hope that Wild Love Preserve receives the money it needs to help truly spread the love and save this amazing part of our country’s heritage.

Last month I visited the Wild Love Preserve in Challis, Idaho. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the area and by the magnificent wild horses. The horses were very gentle as I walked among them. They seemed to thoroughly enjoyed their protected surroundings. The Wild Love Preserve works to save hundreds of horses from annihilation and allows us to appreciate these animals in their natural environment.

I spent many hours growing up around horses but hadn't experienced wild horses. We visited Wild Love Preserve this fall and it was fantastic! I could tell that the horses were so well taken care of and loved! While I thought "wild" meant wild and standoffish, quite a few of these horses were curious about me and let me near them. I fell in love with Twinkle!
Thank you for all of your terrific work bringing this preserve into being and for supporting these beautiful animals.

The story of Wild Horse Preserve has been a heart felt labor of love championed and lead by Earth Spirit volunteers who care for our planet's creatures. All creatures are seen as 'one' with the Planet Earth and the Universe, respected and cared for as family. Andrea is a great and passionate force in this worthy endeavor. She inspires commitment and participation. I have seen no greater active love.

I have to echo everything that Allen Warren stated about Andrea and Wild Love Preserve. Her dedication in saving America's Iconic Wild Horses and providing a sactuary for them is to be honored. I marvel at everything Andrea has sacrificed in her personal life to achieve this goal and with their very existence being threatened today it is gratifying to know that Wild Love Preserve is helping these Iconic beings from becoming extinct.
I wholly support and endorse Wild Love Preserve and Andrea Maki.

As the founder of one of America's oldest and a fully accredited lifelong equine sanctuary, the Horse Harbor Foundation, I have kept up with the amazing job Andrea has done with Wild Love Preserve for several years now. She has managed to create what I believe is the best possible model for keeping America's wild horses in their native homes by bridging the gap between the BLM, local ranchers and the equine welfare community and getting them all behind her work. The diplomacy required for this monumental task required commitment, dedication and skill possessed by very few. Further, she has demonstrated how properly applied temporary birth control can maintain a free roaming wild herd at a proper population to preserve their range in the face of wide spread misunderstanding of the product and technique involved that has set other wild horse advocates at each others' throats. I strongly endorse Wild Love Preserve and the work Andrea Maki does there. It could well be the only course of action that will truly save America's wild horses from total extinction at a time more and more pressure is being placed upon them by various commercial interests intent on taking away their native and legal habitats. WLP is one of the most unique, innovative and successful ventures into wild horse preservation and deserves the continuing support of not only horse lovers but the general public which is in danger of losing one of our national icons. Allen Warren, CEO & Founder, Horse Harbor Foundation.

Beautiful Preserve.
FEATHER + COCONUT is a full supporter of the WILD LOVE PRESERVE.
Inspiration and beauty is what comes fully from what Andrea Maki has done here.
So much love.
Ride on

Wild Love Preserve was founded by Andrea Maki to do the practical work of keeping a magical promise to a band of wild horses. Since the early days of WLP, I've been impressed with the way she meets each challenge with integrity and creativity while encouraging everyone she associates with to do the same. WLP projects her strong ethics and inclusiveness as it collaborates with the BLM, local landowners, scientific groups and others.

Andrea is an accomplished visual artist which adds a unique dimension to sharing Wild Love's work with the world. Her photographs of these high desert horses are exceptional and express her connection to both the horses and the landscape.

This organization, with its passionate and committed volunteers, could not more worthy of support of all types.

Challis, Idaho, is a single main street town with 1081 inhabitants, and the county seat of Custer Counter. Set in a valley surrounded by mountains above and the Salmon River nearby, it is the home of the Wild Love Preserve. You wouldn’t realize, nor notice, that the Preserve on US Route 93 is the ranch home for wild horses. Captured on the high plateaus of the surrounding area, they graze on a 400-acre expanse in wind swept solitude.

The ranch, the horses are the wild love of Andrea Maki, the Preserve’s founder. In June, Bonnie Way and I had a chance to walk among the wild horses as they, and we, roamed over the grassy, and sometimes water soaked, fields of the ranch.

It was quite an experience for me because I have never had a good relationship with horses when young. I never developed the skill to ride them. When I tried, I was usually bumped out of the saddle and landed on the ground with a jarring thud. As an adult, I stayed away from them.

Yet, these wild horses were never threatening and had a fascinating appeal to Bonnie and me. They would gallop away as we approached, stop when we stopped. Eventually, as we stood still and watched quietly, they would approach guardedly assessing us from the distance. In time, we met. They would touch and smell our clothes, nibble on our shoulder bags, nudge our hats, and allow us to touch them and rub their necks and manes.

The experience was thrilling, especially after avoiding contact with horses for so many years. Perhaps the wild horses sensed that we were not a threat to them, just as much as we felt safe in their presence. It was also heartwarming, and educational, to experience these wild, beautiful creatures in their surroundings. They have a wonderful place among the agricultural and outdoor pursuits of the people of, and visitors to, Challis. -Janis Rogainis

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I've known Andrea Maki for 25 years and have witnessed her integrity, dedication, and commitment first-hand. Andrea doesn't waver, she's insistent on honesty and follow-through, and in today's world, it's rare to find a truly altruistic individual. She has inspired me, and countless others, to roll up our sleeves and join her in protecting and preserving wild horses in their indigenous habitats in Idaho and throughout the West.

Since 2010, Andrea's had her art career on hold as she's focused 100% of her time, energy, and resources, on creating an all-inclusive model in wild horse conservation in Idaho, after she promised some Challis wild horses she would do everything she could to help them remain wild and together in their native habitat.

Following her promise, Andrea founded her nonprofit called Wild Love Preserve in 2010 and she's made countless road trips between her home in Seattle and the central Idaho high desert to the Challis wild horses. She's been saving wild horses by bringing opposing stakeholders together for the first time, and because of her efforts, not one Idaho wild horse has been shipped out of state to long-term government facilities, since the Bureau of Land Management's 2012 helicopter roundup of the Challis wild horses.

Kindness, mutual respect, science, and education drive Wild Love Preserve's mission to protect and preserve wild horses in their native habitat and nurture the legacy of respective indigenous ecosystems as an interconnected whole, with regional engagement and benefit. Wild Love Preserve engages public and private lands to address all facets of regional wild horse conservation on home turf in central Idaho: from the 136 Challis, Idaho wild horses WLP adopted following the 2012 Challis BLM helicopter roundup, to their collaborative work on the range and their creation of a permanently protected wild expanse in the heart of Idaho wild horse country.

Andrea's holistic approach to the preservation of our iconic wild mustangs focuses on our collective well-being by bridging divides and bringing stakeholders together to collaboratively address total range health, sustainable ecosystems, co-existence with all wildlife, and livestock where applicable. She's pioneered a model in wild horse preservation that has garnered national attention and serves as a pilot for other wild horse regions.

Boots-on-the-ground work, negotiations, policy change... plus she has been tirelessly fundraising for the last six plus years. Raising full project funding has been a challenge, although not surprising when blazing a new trail, establishing a new system and pilot program. In addition to not having the means to take a salary, she has leveraged all of her personal credit resources to cover WLP wild horse program expenditures, while she's simultaneously saved American taxpayers $7.5 million since 2013.

No matter the odds, Andrea Maki walks her talk. “Too many people are of a moment, then they are off to the next and assume someone else will take care of it. Hypothetical discussions don’t result in change,” she says. “Change only happens with action.”

I was incredibly moved on my 5 day trip to experience the wild horses with my 16 year old grandson. The beauty, gentleness curiosity of these beautiful horses was awe inspiring. I was particularly impressed by Andrea Maki's determination to protect the native horses and her ability to bring together the ranchers, the BLM, and environmentalists. Her approach has already accomplished much of what she has set out to do. How she works with disparate interests is as awe inspiring as being with the horses. This model could be used in other states where there are wild horses and we would be saving the state money as well as preserving these indigenous beings. I hope Wild Love Preserve receives the money it needs so this experiment/model can be used in the future.

I've known Andrea Maki for many years and have witnessed her dedication and comittment first hand. Wild Love is an incredible organization and deserves all the support you can give - they do great work saving and advocating for the wild ones. Great work!!

A fantastic organization with a tremendous mission very near to the heart of this Idahoan.

Wild Love Preserve has given so many beautiful horses a chance to have a normal free life, the horses that are with WIld Love Preserve are free! They have organized themselves into little herds amongst themselves and are peaceful. There is no stress in this herd. I am so grateful to have met Andrea and have had the opportunity to see the progress of where these horses belong. It is a beautiful, awesome organization.

Science has proven over and over again that the horse is a native to the North American continent. As such, our native wild mustangs should receive protection from our federal government. What they actually receive is the BLM and Forest Service's plan to eradicate them in favor of the welfare livestock ranchers and the frack miners. As a taxpayer, I am incensed that my tax dollars are being spent to capture and warehouse my native wild mustangs from my public lands. Our native wild mustangs belong on the public land instead of the cattle and sheep that destroy the land. Science has proven that the native wild mustangs benefit the land while the livestock destroy the land. Some of the livestock ranchers don't even own their own land but use my public land as if it were their own. it is time for this to stop. Only 3% of the meat from the welfare livestock ranchers ends up in the U.S. Most of the meat is shipped overseas at a high profit. Leave MY NATIVE wild mustangs on MY public lands.

Wild Mustangs need to stay on their own turf. They are being rounded up and are not being treated well by those who round them up. Wild love Preserve really cares for the horse there and need all the support they can get. I love them for what they are doing to help the wilds stay wild.

As an owner of an adopted mustang with first-hand knowledge of the lack of good feed and care given to captured mustangs while being held by the BLM, I wholeheartedly support any group helping the mustangs.

I as a member of the public am so pleased with the work this foundation is doing to protect these beautiful animals . Being from this area I have seen there amazing creatures in thier home environment running free and know personally this is an amazing heritage we have to protect.

I support WLP because I believe this is the prototype for other HMAs to follow. I am relieved and grateful to know that after the BLM's 2012 "gather" not a single wild horse from Challis Idaho's HMA left our state for a life of solitary confinement in government run sedentary corals. Our tax money pays for that million dollar misery too! I would rather see my hard earned money go towards happy, healthy wild horses running around together in a semi wild state, as they now are at WLP. The future of Idaho's wild horses depends on the public's support of this great non profit! The future survival of America's wild horses and burros depend on other communities following Andrea Maki's lead.

The WLP is doing a wonderful job saving the lives of our national icon the wild horse. They deserve to be recognized for all the great work they do.

I have been around wild horses, that have been trained for many chores! They are the kindest, gentlest, most caring animal a human can be around!
The rider is guaranteed a safe ride with one of these gentle creatures.

WLP is one of the most wonderful organizations that truly is for the preservation of the most valued treasures of America, the wild horse.
They work extremely hard to get the word out about the plight of the wild horse because of the overreach of the gov't, BLM, Forest Service and ranchers.

These wild horses are classic icons of the true American West.
With WLP's help and foresight, hopefully, America will always have wild horses running free on the land that belongs to them and all of America's animals and people!

WLP is a wonderful organization that is saving the lives of one of our national treasures, our horses! They deserve to be recognized for what they are doing! I had no idea what was happening to our horses until I saw and learned of WLP on Facebook. Spreading awareness of the plight of our horses, mustangs and burros is crucial to their survival. WLP thank you for all you do!!

WLP is an amazing wild horse preserve bringing together advocates, Bureau of Land Management, Ranchers, and environmentalists! What a common-sense approach to wild horse management.

Thank you so much for all your hard work trying to protect and preserve the wild ones!

Wild Love Preserve continues it's mission of preserving the wild horses of America by offering them their very own range to roam. Once adopted from the often cruel government pipeline these Icons of America's West are allowed to live their lives as nature intended. FREE to live and love.

America needs more folks like Andrea Maki who have put it all on the line to offer a better life than that offered by the Federal Government. With that in mind Wild Love receives absolutely no government funding. They rely strictly on donations so won't you help?

This is an amazing group, standing up for something not near enough people care about, Or even know about. All through my childhood I dreamed of doing what Wlp does as my life's, and I cannot explain how excruciatingly happy it makes me that there are others who are so passionate about seeing to wild horses welfare. I wish more people would get on board and support wlp. These guys have more courage and guts than most when it comes to standing up for what you believe in, and doing what's right!

I first learned of this organization in August 2010 and I have followed the progress of Wild Love Preserve. I have been impressed, at times taken aback by successes. Initially I heard rumblings from some entrenched in wild horse politics that Ms. Maki didn't know what she was doing. They wrote this organization off because it was a different approach that did not focus on fighting the political battles out front. There are some who tried to make waves, but Ms. Maki stayed true to her course, communicating and negotiating directly with stakeholders. Now I see some of these same individuals following Ms. Maki's lead. As is often the case, a different perspective culminates in change. Initially I was intrigued by Ms. Maki's ideas, however my lasting impression is seeing these ideas in action and witnessing her stamina and follow though. Ms. Maki does not waiver, she is insistent on honesty and follow through. In today's world it is not everyday you find a truly altruistic individual. Wild Love Preserve is a paradigm shift.

What a story! I love the concept of this mass rescue of our magnificent wild horses from the Challis HMA! We the people need to step in and take charge because the government allows them to be taken from their legally designated lands...someday soon the people must evolve and realize that we have the power to make a change. I am proud of this organization and Founder Andrea for having the vision and making it work!

I am proud to be a donor to this amazing organization! Andrea Maki has created a natural environment for wild horses without moving them from their homeland. No longer will they be tortured and abused by the BLM and it's helicopter flying henchmen! Thank you Andrea!

Wild Love Preserve does more with limited funds than any other non-profit I know of. What an amazing job Andrea Maki has done to save our wild horses! Great organization doing so much for a threatened group of animals.

I am proud to be a donor and supporter of Wild Love Preserve. We should all be grateful for the tremendous efforts of Andrea Maki. She saw the vast range of problems in finding a permanent solution to the wild horse population in central Idaho, and with vision, love and determination devoted herself to creating a sustainable solution. Her dedication is an inspiration to all and I wholeheartedly hope support for WLP grows to meet all the challenges ahead.

Sincerely,
Grover Clark

If you love life, this project extends our oportunity to participate in that celebration.

Wild Love Preserve is about humans experiencing benefit from working together in a cooperative manner in order to preserve the spirit of freedom.

When we use our free will to choose, value and protect the rights of natural freedom, we can, in the process find our own path to living and loving the free spirit of our beautiful natural existence.

It also provides a way to engage with an accessible part of our government and the greater population in an educational manner. Sharing our insigths into other ways of satisfying our responsibilities, while learning from the perspectives of others. This opportunity is neccessasry for each of us to discover the positive motivations of all human endeavors.

Issues in our culture, at this time are exceedingly complex, so a bit of focus on action becomes a healing meditation. Can there be a better way to help heal our planet than to liberate the rejuvinating power of freedom of spirit?

thank you Andrea for putting your energy and enthusiasm into positive ventures for our planet.

Larry Lawson,
West of the Cascades, East of the olympics

Way to go, Andrea. Wish I could see them!but can't so appreciate all the remarks,

WLP is an amazing organization. Andrea has single-handedly made a viable, functioning horse sanctuary out of nothing. She did this with to fill a need to help care for wild horses. The adversity she faced from many factions, both govt. and private were and still are daunting. This is not a problem for Andrea and WLP. They achieved the mission they set out for and continue to provide a wonderful sanctuary for these animals. Truly a model for the rest of the country's wild horse and burro issue.

I've known Andrea for year and am proud to call her my friend. Her commitment to the wild horses of Idaho is inspiring, and the work Wild Love has done to help the wilds is wonderful. I feel that Wild Love is a great example of true charity at work!

Wild Love Preserve and Andrea Maki are unbelievable! Not only are they doing great work and saving Wild Horses, native ecosystems, but also American taxpayers - instead of spending 100's of thousands of dollars for decades warehousing wild horses in "concentration camps" in Oklahoma after forced helicopter roundups and cruel long-haul trucking, Andrea and her merry band of volunteers and community cooperators are turning what some bureaucrats saw as "trash" into a real "treasure".

Eco-tourism based on wild horse viewing is developing from the grass-roots in the economically depressed community of Challis, Idaho that has depended on resource extraction - timber, grazing, mining, water diversions - and is creating a sustainable local economy.

The BLM should take notice and learn - this alternative works... even in a "difficult" county like Custer County, Idaho. Andrea's got factions that had been legal warring for more than 30 years to pull together for one common cause - their wild horse heritage and developing a sustainable, local community.

What a winner!

This is an amazing organization. I want to say thank you for keeping our few Idaho horses we have left in Idaho. And giving my nine year old son something to fight for and strive to accomplish. Keep up the good fight.

As a private citizen and taxpayer, who has called, emailed and sent faxes to the BLM for the past four + years, with absolutely NO response from them, I am delighted that Wild Love Preserve is thinking outside the box! This should be the replacement for all horses and burros in both long and short term holding, the equivalent of horse jail. These horses need to remain on their rightful lands, not be rounded up cruelly by helicopters.

My husband and I first went out to the Challis area in early October 2012 to photograph the wild horses in the Challis Herd Management Area about 3 weeks before the 2012 Roundup. The horses looked healthy and strong and breathtakingly gorgeous. The stallion of the band looked at me and snorted a little, but then settled in right away and granted us permission to be near. We didn't stay long so as not to bother them. We were ecstatic and grateful for the experience that I would interpret as something elevating and unworldly. We went back the next week and we were in love with the Challis wild horses.

We were very worried about our sanity in witnessing the BLM roundup, but we knew we had to do it for the horses. Enter the gifted Andrea Maki. Although the roundup was devastating and our hearts were broken as we wept, Andrea helped us stay calm by explaining the details and welcoming us with love and kindness into the Wild Love Preserve family. She gave us hope for the horses...and hope for human kind. Our lives have changed permanently because of Andrea and Wild Love Preserve and the amazing, forgiving and spiritual wild horses. Andrea IS Wild Love Preserve and she is giving her life in commitment to save our wild horses with a pilot program to show the whole country that every community can do this. WLP shows that we CAN save our own wild horses in our own backyard. My husband and I will do everything we can to help spread the word and contribute in every way we can for the rest of ours. xoxo -- all our love and thank you, thank you, thank you forever to WLP and their angel Andrea!

Incredible organization with a mission that makes sense on all sides of the issue. Inclusive and community-minded, this non-profit engages everyone in the spirit of preservation. Highly recommend checking out www.wildlovepreserve.org.

Wild Love Preserve, pure and simple, saves horses lives from senseless slaughter. In our world, we are bombarded with a multitude of charities, causes, and special interest groups asking for our help. The uniqueness of WLP is in its simplicity of getting the job done efficiently, with hands in the dirt, and a direct donation-to-need approach. When I have donated, it has felt like I was personally delivering a flake of hay to a mare and her newborn colt. Andrea Maki, the founder of WLP, is a woman of rare integrity and passion dedicated to serving the horse. When I donate, I know in my heart, that every cent is being utilized to its highest and greatest use for the preservation and care of these majestic and peaceful beings, that simply want to live. This country was built on the backs of horses, lets honor them.

I first heard of Wild Love Preserve when the non-profit I volunteer with in Miami was competing in the Pepsi Refresh online contest. Andrea Maki was asking for a large sum to start her organization and I was drawn to her haunting photos of these magnificent proud animals that are our heritage. I voted for her every chance I could. I am amazed at the progress she has made in the last 3 years, and am very glad to see that so many horses have been saved. We must continue to support the preservation of these wonderous animals. They have the right to be on these lands. Although I am too far away to volunteer, I will continue to donate to Wild Love Preserve and share all the triumph with my friends, associates and family. RUN FREE, RUN WILD LOVE FOREVER!