BE A WLP Lifeguard!

In Celebration of Wild Love Preserve's 5th Year Anniversary we're thrilled to launch this T-Shirt Fundraising Campaign featuring our favorite WLP Lifeguard T-shirts in classic Lifeguard Red and Navy. 

WLP WILD LIFEGUARD T FUNDRAISER

CLICK TO ORDER YOUR WLP LIFEGUARD T-SHIRTS.  Unisex t, ALL SIZES youth-adult.  T-SHIRTS PRINT AT CLOSE OF CAMPAIGN AND SHIP TO YOU DIRECTLY BY MAY 6.

THANKS A MILLION FOR HELPING US REACH OUR GOAL OF SELLING 150 UNITS OF EACH DESIGN/COLOR (2 DESIGNS/2 COLORS/4 TOTAL).

T-Shirt Design and All Content ©2014 Andrea Maki + Wild Love Preserve™, All Rights Reserved.

Set Yourself Free

Happy Spring 2015!  Are you ready for some once-in-lifetime kind of fun? Let's do it! 

We have another wild adventure season upon us and are starting to book your unique day, overnight and week trips.  Visit WILD ADVENTURES to Create Your Customized Wild Horse Experience!

Wide Open Spaces. Limitless Possibilities. Pure, Wild, Beauty.  Magic Under the Stars.

Experience The Wilds of Central Idaho - Challis Wild Horse Country, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, The Pahsimeroi and Little Lost River Valley.

Wild Love Preserve and Seeks Out Adventures Invite You to Experience The Wilds of Idaho!

Behind The Scenes

Back on August 30, 2014: We do it on horseback! A behind the scenes look at Team WLP turning out our 126 Challis, Idaho wild horses to 200+ acres after 18 months in fenced corrals, separated geldings from mares, to meet BLM requirements.

Happiness is... our wilds co-mingling again and establishing new and lasting family bands. Next stop: WLP permanent wild expanse right here at home in Custer County, Idaho.

We LOVE our wild crew: two-legged and four!

You can join us with your contribution, visit Giving 2015 for more.

Video ©Andrea Maki 2014

Give and Receive Big Love

It’s Wild Love Month. The Time Is Now.

Your giving nurtures lasting wildness! For more, our Fundraising Wish List outlines current areas where you can have immediate positive impact in humane and sustainable wild horse conservation on home turf in Central Idaho. Your contribution also offers us opportunity to express our appreciation by adding your name to the WLP Giving List. 

Thank you for being the difference and joining us in wildness forever.

You Matter

February 2015 marks our 5th Annual "Wild Love Month"! We work to serve the well-being of approximately 330 native wild horses - from the 200+ roaming free on the Challis Herd Management Area (HMA) to the 130 Challis, Idaho wild horses we purchased and adopted following the BLM's 2012 Helicopter Roundup of the Challis HMA. By design our adopted 130 have been pulled from the federally funded system to instead remain wild and forever together on permanently protected WLP wild expanse on home turf in Central Idaho. 

It takes a village to implement lasting change. As a grassroots, boots-on-the-ground non-profit, your support makes it all happen. Wild Love Preserve's Fundraising Wish List outlines areas where you can have an immediate positive impact in wild lives and help us, help them.  

Thank you for caring, love is action.  You Matter - You Make a Difference.

Video ©Andrea Maki 2014. Music ©Queen.

Our Teachers

"Animals are our teachers, man has much to learn. Humans are not superior to all else. The belief that man sits atop a pyramid of life, here to do as he pleases, has brought us to the state we are in today. At the extreme cost of the whole, many two-leggeds are disconnected and concerned only with their own immediate needs and desires. They fall short of understanding that humans are but a mere part of the whole and that within that whole lies a very delicate balance. The magic of life lies within a sacred circle. As humans we have a responsibility and we have a choice. Life requires our participation, to fully engage. To walk this earth must not be taken for granted. It is our responsibility to protect and care for the land. To respect the earth and all its inhabitants, acting with conscience and awareness. It is vital that we learn from the past and apply that knowledge in a positive manner moving forward."  A. Maki, 2002


True Grit

I'm not a football person, but once again the Seahawks play a game that resonates to the core. Yesterday's NFC win was far more than just a series of plays on the field, it exemplified a language of life, perseverance, grit and belief, especially in those moments when things weren't falling into place. While naysayers began to surface, the guys on the field remained steadfast.

This Wild Love roller coaster of highs and lows, staying the course and bringing it home serves as proof, yet again, that even when others loose faith in you, think you won't succeed, tell you to give up, even offer you dollars to quit and leave your side because your goal seems too great, even impossible... that this disbelief is simply the view from their limited perspective and in no way reflects the reality of all that is actually possible.   - A. Maki

Moves to Make By Year-End

Your Charitable Giving Is Tax Deductible

If you’re looking for ways to cut your 2014 tax bill and do good at the same time, consider donating to non-profit charity Wild Love Preserve.

Besides giving cash to a non-profit charity, 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 over 70.5 years you can distribute a charitable gift from your IRA Fund and receive a tax-credit without incurring fees or federal taxes for distribution.

Click Here To Donate On-Line  or Mail Donation to Wild Love Preserve in form of check or money order dated no later then December 31, 2014.  Click Here For WLP Mailing Address

Special Thanks for Your Heart and Action. 100% of Your Donations Directly Benefit Preservation of Idaho’s Native Wild Horses and Habitat in Central Idaho.

You Make a Difference and are Deeply Appreciated.

It Takes A Village

In October 2012, prior to the Idaho Bureau of Land Management's Helicopter Roundup on the Challis Herd Management Area (HMA) we created a "WLP Signatures of Support" Campaign in Ketchum, Idaho that read as follows:

"WILD LOVE PRESERVE IS ABOUT US ALL, A REFLECTION OF OUR HUMANITY. Founded April 2010, non-profit Wild Love Preserve addresses the Challis Wild Horses and HMA. The Wild Love Mission to protect native wild horses in their native habitat and nurture the legacy of this indigenous ecosystem on our public lands in a responsible, sustainable manner is multi-faceted, all-inclusive and in constant motion. Our action goes direct to the source in the wild as a fluid, ever-evolving, working solution to benefit the whole. While views differ, WLP's interest lies in finding common ground and working together to implement a new approach and reduce conflict between all parties involved. The time is prime, good will and energy abundant.

The overall intent of WLP's Regional and Sustainable Wild Horse Management Program is to collaboratively manage this native wild horse population in a humane, responsible manner that will no longer require federally funded helicopter roundups that result in removals and family displacement, at times loss of life, followed by transport to short, then long-term holding facilities - but instead nurture a healthy, genetically viable native herd and indigenous ecosystem for future generations to also experience, nurture and equally treasure.  Love is Action!"

From there our wild cup runneth over with appreciation as volunteer Team WLP rallied supporters big and small alike, resulting in tons of love for Wild Love Preserve and the Challis Wild Horses. Over 2000 “Signatures of Support” were collected the old fashion way with pen, paper, conversation and smiles, complimented further by awesome “I Ride For The Band™” drawings by the kids and the most wonderful custom baked wild horse and heart-shaped cookies donated by a local baker.    

This Love Action will forever be a deeply appreciated highlight in our wild travels. We thank everyone joining us, past, present and future, who chooses to make a lasting difference with their heart and action.