Happy Solstice + Holidays! Resonate in Kindness + Wildness!
xox, Andrea + Wild Love Wilds
Wild Love Founder, Andrea Maki
Wild Love Preserve was founded in 2010 by contemporary visual artist, Andrea Maki. Most said it would be impossible to bring stakeholders together. Some went as far as to try and shut her down. However, she is built of tenacity, and is insistent on truth and integrity, and wouldn't allow others to derail her efforts to establish a new collaborative platform in the name of saving the Challis wild horses on their home turf, and wild horses in the West.
“My interest is in engaging in discussions that lead to solutions through listening and mutual respect. This is an accountability project and a humanity project. Wild Love Preserve works with the Bureau of Land Management, cattle ranchers, environmentalists, wildlife biologists, wild horse advocates, youth employment groups and regional communities, offering a mutually viable solution to helicopter roundups and removals. My role over the years, has, in many ways, been that of a moderator. Since 2010, Wild Love Preserve has been fully engaged in collaborative population management, accountability and pro-active programs that involve all stakeholders and address the health and balance of the range and this unique indigenous ecosystem as an interconnected and balanced whole. While differing opinions are a given, mutual respect in negotiations and dealings are integral in establishing common ground. We do not implement tools of litigation, instead, we work face-to-face with all stakeholders, finding compromise between differing perspectives through fluid communications in real-time.” -Andrea Maki, Founder
Learn more here: Wild Love's Founder
Big Thanks To Stone Gossard + PJ!
Big, big, shout out of appreciation to Stone Gossard + Pearl Jam's Vitalogy Foundation for their continued support + annual donation to Wild Love Preserve! ❤️
Year-End Giving To The WLP Legacy Fund
It's that time of year again, so we wanted to share a friendly and wild reminder. When everyone pitches in, wondrous things happen that serve to better our greater whole. Our WLP Legacy Fund offers a mutually beneficial opportunity for you and the preservation of our iconic wild mustangs and their native habitats. As a registered non-profit, effective as of August 2010, your charitable donations to Wild Love Preserve are tax-deductible. So, while Wild Love Preserve wild horse conservation programs have already saved taxpayers over $7.5 million dollars since 2013, we offer additional tax incentives by gifting to our programs.
Wild Love Preserve's Legacy Fund supports the lasting wildness of Idaho's wild horses on their home turf, and our innovative model continues to serve as a framework for other western wild horse regions. This means your support is both meaningful and far-reaching. This fund supports the expense of daily operations, our current 400-acre lease, equipment, winter hay, and the acquisition of our permanent wild expanse which will enable us to turn out our current 136 wild horses come spring 2018, and permanently protect future Idaho wild horses removed from public lands. Wild horse and habitat conservation comes with a healthy price tag. Funding is essential and it takes a village to implement lasting change.
Our Limited Edition Signature Wild Love Ponies. Donate $100+ and receive this special gift from the wild side.
Besides gifting cash as a charitable contribution, you may consider donating highly appreciated stock. You won’t owe capital gains taxes and can deduct the current value of the investment as a charitable gift.
If you are over 70.5 years of age, you can also distribute a charitable gift from your IRA Fund and receive a tax-credit without incurring fees or federal taxes for distribution.
Special thanks for your truth and giving heart. You make a world of difference with your giving, and together we ensure lasting wildness for countless generations ahead. 100% of your contributions support these wild icons of the west, our wild horse conservation programs and respective indigenous ecosystems as an interconnected whole.
Thank you, Andrea + Wild Love Preserve
Wild Love Preserve • 8202 NE State Highway 104, #102-33 • Kingston, WA 98346
DONATE HERE or Give to a Specific Aspect of WLP Operations: Four Ways To Help
Visit our Newman's Own Foundation $500k Holiday Challenge thru Jan 2, 2018. Online donations here will help us win $150,000 for Wild Love Preserve's wild horse conservation programs.
We're honored to be a 2017 Top-Rated Nonprofit at Great-Nonprofits. Read our reviews.
Wild Love Preserve is a Registered 501(c)3 Nonprofit, Effective August 2010, Tax ID# 27-3729450
It's #GivingTuesday 2017
Aloha Friends - It's #GivingTuesday and America’s wild mustangs need our vital support. Please join us on this special day of global giving, November 28th. We're out to win up to $50,000 in the Newman’s Own Foundation $500k Holiday Challenge. This is an amazing opportunity and we need your help.
This #GivingTuesday Bonus Challenge ends at 11:59:59pm ET today, so please, click here: www.crowdrise.com/wild-love-preserve to donate and support Wild Love Preserve before time runs out. Our appreciation is beyond measure, thank you.
Wild Love Preserve has demonstrated with our programs, that coexistence, humane treatment and sustainable management, protecting wild lives and indigenous habitat, and saving tax dollars, all work together with our model. Your vital support will help us keep wild horses running wild and together on their native turf. We are raising funds for our 400-acre lease, 250 tons of winter hay, equipment and continuing daily operations. 100% of your tax-deductible contributions, no matter the size, will support the lasting wildness and well-being of 136 adopted Challis-Idaho wild horses at Wild Love Preserve, and free-roaming Idaho wild horses on the range. You truly make a difference, and together we will continue to save wild lives and indigenous habitats.
Thank you for caring and for acting your heart.
Andrea Maki + Wild Love Preserve
Recieve A Special Wild Gift
Friends - This Giving Season we are thrilled to launch a Special Limited Edition of our Signature Wild Love Ponies. Donate $100 or more and you, or a person of your choosing, will receive this special gift from the wild side. We only have a limited number for the holiday season. To receive your special gift you can donate on-line, by mail (our address is below) or contribute to our Newman's Own Holiday Challenge and help us meet our goal by the end of the year.
Our soft and adorable Wild Love Pony stands 10" and sports a special Ride For The Band™ bandana.
If you prefer to mail your donation by check, our new mailing address is:
Wild Love Preserve
8202 NE State Highway 104, Suite 102-33
Kingston, WA 98346
Donate Today To Receive A Special Wild Love Pony While They Last! Inquire With Questions.
Newman's Own Holiday Challenge
Friends... We are excited to share news that Wild Love Preserve has been invited to participate in the Newman's Own $500,000 Holiday Challenge! The nonprofit to raise the most funds by the end of the year will win $150,000, which would be tremendous for the preservation of our iconic wild horses on home turf. Please help us bring this one home, America’s wild mustangs need our support more than ever. Thank you for making a difference with your contributions.
Visit our Newman’s Own Charity Challenge Fundraising Page to read our story, contribute and share with your circles: www.crowdrise.com/wild-love-preserve
Year-end charitable giving is upon us and America’s wild mustangs need our support more than ever. If you believe in the preservation of our iconic wild mustangs and our wild places, now and for future generations, we invite you to walk with Wild Love Preserve as wild horses lead our way to cultivating the health and balance of our wild places.
Help us keep wild horses running wild and together on their native turf. We are raising funds for our 400-acre lease, 250 tons of winter hay, equipment and continuing daily operations. 100% of your tax-deductible contributions, no matter the size, will support the lasting wildness and well-being of 136 adopted Challis-Idaho wild horses at Wild Love Preserve, and free-roaming Idaho wild horses on the range. You make a difference and together we save wild lives and indigenous habitats.
Sentient Beings
136 Sentient Wild Beings at Wild Love Preserve.
Thank you for joining us in ensuring their lasting wildness on their native turf.
May the wild, stay wild.
Wild Love Feature On Outdoor Idaho
We are sharing this segment from Outdoor Idaho’s October 19 premiere of “Wild Horses” on Idaho Public Television, featuring the wild wonders we adopted and purchased with our WLP Adoption Project following the 2012 Challis BLM helicopter roundup, removing them from the taxpayer system and permanently protecting them on their native turf to remain wild and together. Outdoor Idaho posted the segment about Wild Love Preserve on their Facebook page for viewing, click link here:
https://www.facebook.com/outdoor.idaho/videos/10155711919700688/
Wild Love Preserve engages public and private lands to address all facets of regional wild horse conservation on home turf in Central Idaho, from our adopted 130 Challis-Idaho wild horses to our collaborative work on the range, and our creation of a permanently protected wild expanse in the heart of Idaho wild horse country for which we are raising funds via donors and sponsors. Kindness, mutual respect, science and education drive the mission of Wild Love Preserve to protect and preserve western wild horses in their native environments and nurture the legacy of respective indigenous ecosystems in a collaborative, responsible and sustainable manner with community engagement and benefit. Wild horses lead our way to cultivating the health and balance of our wild places as an interconnected whole, now and for future generations. Our work that began on the Challis Herd Management Area (HMA) in 2010, has since expanded to work collaboratively with the Idaho Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on all six wild horse HMAs in Idaho state, engaging stakeholders and our partners, to ensure Idaho wild horses remain integral, wild and free on their home turf. By design, collaborative conservation efforts offer a viable option to BLM helicopter roundups, integrate total range health, collective harmony and co-existence with native wildlife, livestock where applicable, and all stakeholders. In addition to saving wild lives in a lasting manner, Wild Love Preserve has saved American taxpayers $7.5 million dollars since 2013 as result of our programs on and off the range.
WLP's extensive collaborative work on the range implementing Native PZP-1YR to manage population vs roundup and removal commenced years ago. WLP spearheaded these efforts with the Challis-Idaho wild horses, and grant money from the ASPCA and Vitalogy Foundation has helped with our goals on this front. We are sharing this coverage from May 2016: "The Balancing Act of the Challis Wild Horses" with Melissa Hackney on Idaho's KPVI Ch 6 Nightly News.
#TBT To 2011
Throwback Tuesday to 2011 from Sun Valley Magazine.
WLP Featured On Outdoor Idaho
After a year of filming, Outdoor Idaho will air their special about Idaho's wild horses which features Wild Love Preserve. "Wild Horses" will premiere on Idaho public television on Thursday, October 19 at 8 p.m. Here is the cover of Outdoor Idaho's October 2017 Program Guide featuring a photograph of the White Mask Stallion by Wild Love Preserve founder and contemporary visual artist + photographer, Andrea Maki. To watch the video clip Outdoor Idaho posted on their Facebook page, click here:
https://www.facebook.com/outdoor.idaho/videos/10155624102150688/
Take A Walk On The Wild Side
Take a walk on the wild side with our crew at Wild Love Preserve. We're committed to lasting wildness on home turf. This means our iconic wild horses are free to be. This means they will remain forever wild at home. This means wild and together in their native habitats. This means your support ensures wild freedom This means you can make a difference. This means, that together, we're saving wild lives.
Let's Go Wild! Thank You!
September 7, 2010
Seven years ago today + thundering hooves just keep thundering!
Wildlife Conferences 2012
#Throwback-Tuesday and back to August 2012 with Dr. Jay F. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. and The Science and Conservation Center at The Wild Horse Symposium and 7th International Conference on Fertility Control in Wildlife, held that year in Jackson Hole, Wyoming... with wildfires closing in. Seems like only yesterday. #NameTags
Support Lasting Wildness
Lasting Wildness on Home-Turf at Wild Love Preserve for 137 Challis-Idaho Wild Horses
Your support helps us do what we do in saving and securing wild ives and native habitat. WE have $50,000 to raise towards our $250,000 fund that pays for our 400-acre lease + supplemental winter hay. YOU can make the difference with your tax-deductible donations of any size. 100% of your giving goes to WLP wild horse care and well-being.
The Total Eclipse at Wild Love
The Total Eclipse at Wild Love Preserve
On August 21, 2017 we experienced the total eclipse of the sun. Challis, Idaho was in the Path of Totality and expectations were high, with folks traveling from all parts of the world to witness the event, which, for us, happened around 11 am. While folks were scattered about the in their respective locations, eclipse glasses at the ready and countless cameras pointed towards the sky, I was just where I wanted to be, surrounded by our 137 Challis, Idaho wild horses at Wild Love Preserve - me and my wild 4-legged family.
At first, there was a palpable stillness in the air, the horses were on certain alert. Calm, watchful, and mindful of everyone's respective positions. There was an impending sense of uncertainty as the usual morning light was dimming. And when the moon shadow had almost covered the whole of the sun, the temperature dramatically dropped to an evening chill, and light sensors tripped as day turned to night. In the moment that seemed as though someone had flipped the light-switch off, stillness was instantaneously replaced by wild whinnies and hundreds of thundering hooves on all sides of where I stood. It was paradise!
As quickly as darkness fell, a curious glow of daylight returned, but the horses were wound-up and remained unsettled. For over fifteen minutes it was thundering hooves mixed with moments of pause to watch and listen, only to thunder again, ever mindful of my position amidst them. In time, they slowed and headed towards me to check in and be assured we were all okay, just as they have done in past times of question. And I count myself incredibly lucky, to be their trusted person, in our circle of life, love, and truth - these magnificent wild wonders forever interconnected with the whole of my being.
Since I have been asked by so many, how the wild horses responded to the eclipse, I have decided to make a very special, real time, video with the sights and sounds and activities of this happening. Instead of a snippet or two, for full effect and treat, I have included the footage as I captured and experienced it. The result is nine and a half minutes that will have you feeling as if you are right there with me. It was happening fast and my iPhone video camera was getting confused by the day, then night, then day. But the randomness of movement, blur, grain, and light speaks to how it organically unfolded, so turn up the volume and join me the wonderfulness of this wildness.
Enjoy, Andrea Maki
READ STORY PUBLISHED IN THE BORED PANDA: HOW DID IDAHO WILD HORSES REACT TO THE TOTAL ECLIPSE?
READ STORY IN HORSETALK MAGAZINE: TOTAL ECLIPSE AT WILD LOVE PRESERVE
The Path Of Totality
This story from Horsetalk Magazine on August 17, 2017:
Solar Eclipse to Pass Right Over Special Idaho Wild Horse Herd
Click to read: http://bit.ly/2uSIshD
Purchase a commemorative Wild Love Preserve t-shirt with the coordinates + time of the solar eclipse in Challis. T-shirts + sweatshirts, in black or navy for guys + gals, are available through August 25. 100% of the profits support the lasting wildness of Challis wild horses on their home turf in central Idaho.
Click here: http://bit.ly/wlp-eclipse2017
Commemorative WLP Eclipse T-Shirts
We have a very special on-line fundraiser and t-shirt campaign to share! On August 21 Wild Love Preserve and the Challis Wild Horses will fall within the much anticipated "Path of Totality" - meaning we will experience a total solar eclipse on the wild side! To mark this historic event, contemporary artist/photographer + founder, Andrea Maki, has created our commemorative Wild Love Preserve t-shirt with the coordinates and time of the solar eclipse in Challis. Please join us from all parts of the globe in marking this special event. T-shirts and sweatshirts are available through August 25 and 100% of the profits support Wild Love Preserve and the lasting wildness of the Challis wild horses on their home turf in central Idaho. Thank you!
Purchase Here: http://bit.ly/wlp-eclipse2017
Childhood Treasures
The things you find again. Today I opened a box to find three of my treasured childhood books from 45 years ago, including my special signed copy of "Mustang - Wild Spirit of the West," published the year I was born in 1966. Some paths you instinctually travel your whole life and beyond. -Andrea Maki
A Day In The Life At Wild Love
As we celebrate Dad's this June, two-legged and four, here's a look into day in the life at Wild Love Preserve and saving Idaho's wild horses at home. In light of the current happenings, we need your support more then ever. Together we can ensure wild horses remain wild. Please join us and help us raise $36,000 by June 30 for the 400 acres WLP leases for our 137 adopted/rescued Idaho wild horses. 100% of every dollar donated goes to the wild horses and their lasting wildness. Donations of all sizes make a difference and are tax-deductible because Wild Love Preserve is a registered non-profit, effective since August 2010. We can't do this alone, this a "WE" project and we are asking everyone to please pitch in if you can.
Thanks a million for caring enough to take action! Click here to donate, on-line, via PayPal or by mail: Donate Today