In April 2025, Wild Love Preserve marked 15 years of hard work and due diligence. We have remained steeled in our mission, convictions, and the original concepts we set forth in 2010. We have persevered through countless challenges and achieved things many believed were impossible, or didn't want to see succeed. We never followed; instead, we offered change through boots-on-the-ground action, kindness, and mutual respect, because problems can’t be solved at the same frequency they originated.
Wild Love Preserve created a new and inclusive approach to wild horse conservation on home turf that engages diverse stakeholders and has become a model for other wild horse regions throughout the West. Some, who felt threatened and tried to shut us up or shut us down over the years, now follow Wild Love Preserve’s model in wild horse conservation, even attempting to claim our concepts as their own "innovative ideas" and capitalize on them. Truth always prevails. What matters most is that people do the things they can to help and to serve our iconic wild horses and the wildlands they call home. Wild Love Preserve's heart is forever wild, true, determined, and only grows with time.
Wild Love's Mission + Travels
I’m a visual artist and photographer, and in 2010, I founded Wild Love Preserve. We are a grassroots, boots-on-the-ground nonprofit with kindness, respect, conflict resolution, science, and education driving our mission to protect and preserve western wild horses in their natural habitats and nurture the legacy of respective indigenous ecosystems as an interconnected and balanced whole with regional engagement and benefit.
By design, Wild Love Preserve engages public and private lands to address all facets of regional wild horse conservation by bringing diverse stakeholders together in a new light. This includes our longtime collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and work on the range in Idaho since 2012, to our adopted 225+ Challis-Idaho wild horses following the 2012 and 2019 Challis BLM roundups, bait-trap gathers, returned Idaho wild horses from other adopters, future Idaho wild horses, and Wild Love’s permanently protected wildlife preserve in Oregon.
Our multifaceted approach and pioneering model in wild horse conservation over the last 15 years have been rooted in boots-on-the-ground action and bridging divides. We engage the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, cattle ranchers, environmentalists, scientists, wildlife biologists, wild horse advocates, youth employment groups, and regional communities. Our 10,000-acre wildlife preserve serves as an outdoor research environment with wild horses continuing to lead our way in restoring, nurturing, and protecting respective habitats, water sources, and wild lands for all indigenous species from the river to the cliff tops in a lasting manner. Everyone counts at Wild Love Preserve.
To those who have joined us on the wild ride, I want to express my deepest and most sincere appreciation for your good energy and support over the years. The difference you make carries lasting impact in wild lives and their respective habitats at Wild Love Preserve.
LOVE IS ACTION
Andrea Maki
For our 15th Anniversary, I've brought back the original Wild Love T-shirt I designed in 2010, when Wild Love Preserve first took flight. We’re keeping it wld! -AM
