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Wild Horse and Burro Groups & Registries |
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BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program, National Program Office PO Box 12000 Reno, NV 89520-0006 775-785-6583 Website: www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov
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Nevada State Virginia Range ("Comstock") Wild Horse Program
(NV Department of Agriculture) Note: This program has been shut down due to budget reasons. To report a horse emergency please contact: Darryl Peterson 775-688-2830
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Western States Wild Horse & Burro Expo
Reno, NV Cindy Lawrence 775-853-4182 Web Information: www.wildhorseandburroexpo.com
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Wild Horse Preservation League (Wild Horse Tourism / Viewing Information) Bonnie Matton 775-220-6806 Email: mattonco@prodigy.net Website: www.wildhorsepl.org Wild Horse Adventure of Nevada Project Website: www.wildhorseadventure.net |
Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary
Colorado Horse Rescue
Corolla Wild Horse Fund, Inc.
Ecological Heritage Foundation
The Florida Wild Horse & Burro Association The FWHBA is a grass roots non-profit wild horse and burro organization made up primarily of wild horse and burro adopters and trainers. They provide adopter support and training programs in the state of Florida.
The Foundation for Shackleford Horses, Inc. The Foundation for Shackleford Horses, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable, educational and scientific North Carolina corporation formed to "Protect and preserve the Shackleford horse and ensure its continuing existance on into the foreseeable future." In addition, the Foundation is working to ensure there are sufficient numbers of Shackleford Banks wild horses to preserve genetic variability and viability. (To see photos on the KBR website of banker horses and foundation volunteers at work, click HERE!)
Friends of the Mustangs A Colorado BLM volunteer group who helps manage The Little Bookcliffs Wild Horse Area. Wild Horses on or off the range, titled or untitled are helped by their efforts. FOM assists with herd management, gathering, adoptions, assisting new adopors, compliance checks and proactively intervening when an adopted horse is in trouble. New members and visitors are welcome. Webmaster's Note: This is the only volunteer group that I am aware of that BLM uses to gather wild horses off the range. It is because The FOM volunteers are effective, yet so safety conscious with respect to the wild horses, that they are allowed to do this.
Great Lakes Mustang Association GLMA is a non-profit organization based in Michigan. They send out a quarterly newsletter to members and do whatever they can to help find new homes for previously adopted mustangs that are no longer wanted or can't be kept. They have a network of support for adopters and work at spreading the good word on how rewarding it is to adopt a horse in need.
HollyBerry Farm and Rescue Specializing in the rescue and rehab of neglected, starved and otherwise injured or ill horses with a focus on Mustangs. Wanting to become involved in genetic studies, looking for Spanish bloodlines. They believe they have some true Spanish horses that have been untouched and untampered with since the Conquistadors came over.
Institute of Range and the American Mustang (IRAM)
Intermountain Wild Horse & Burro Advisors (IWHBA)
International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros (ISPMB) is America's oldest wild horse and burro advocacy group. ISPMB also has a mustang and burro registry (see Registries section, below.) The ISPMB is active in the rescue and rehabilitation of BLM Mustangs and Burros through their Operation Wild Horse and Burro Rescue program. The rescue group stays in contact with the auction houses in the State of Arizona. Whenever a BLM Mustang or Burro is put up for auction, the group purchases the animal, brings them back to the ISPMB facility, rehabilitates the animal and finds and adoptive and/or permanent home. These animals are also used to rehabilitate young and old people alike through the ISPMB Volunteer program. They are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. They produce a quarterly newsletter through funds raised by donations. The donations are also used to feed the current herd and purchase auctioned animals.
Least Resistance Training Concepts (LRTC)
Wild Horse Mentors Developers of wild horse and burro gentling and training information; national coordinators of the Wild Horse Mentors group and organizers of the annual national Wild Horse Workshops.
Life Is For Everything (LIFE) Foundation
Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue A nonprofit organization dedicated to saving born-wild horses from abandonment, abuse, neglect and slaughter. Lifesavers has an adoption program for placement of rescued mustangs. Lifesavers also offers programs to educate the general public on wild horse issues in order to help ensure the protection and preservation of America's wild horses in addition to horse handling programs for wild horse adopters.
Middle Tennessee Mustang Association
Mustang & Burro Organized Assistance
"Helping Adoptors and Horses & Burros in the Northeast." MBOA is a non-profit run by volunteers, all experienced with wild horses and burros. MBOA is available to assist in whatever adoptors or the animals need.
National Wild Horse & Burro Show Association Organizes and hosts the National Wild Horse and Burro Show in Reno, NV.
National Wild Horse Association
Pacific Wild Horse Club PWHC is a very active group dedicated to the protection and promotion of America's Wild Horses and Burros, both those that have been adopted and those still roaming on the range. The group is involved in a number of areas including promoting and demonstrating wild horses, providing education and support for adoptors and providing placement assistance in the event an adopter cannot keep his or her horse. PWHC are the local hosts for the 2001 Wild Horse Workshop in Eugene, OR.
Nevada Commission for the Preservation of Wild Horses The Wild Horse Preservation Commission serves to sustain viable herds of wild horses on public lands throughout Nevada. The Commission serves as an advocate for wild horses through participation with federal agencies to ensure that sufficient habitat is available for wild horse populations. As well, the Commission participation in programs designed to encourage and promote the protection of wild horses by serving as a clearinghouse for information to the general public and the news media on all aspects of wild horses. (Also publishes"Mustang Manes and Tales" magazine.)
North Carolina Wild Horse Association
Sky's the Limit Horse Rescue, Inc. Northern California rescue dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of wild horses and burros in need. We assist the BLM to place the "Hard to Adopts" and "Special Needs" mustangs and burros.
Turtle Rock Rescue Turtle Rock Rescue is a multi-species rescue and placement organization with two facilities in New Hampshire and another under development in Arizona. They provide "rescue" in the truest sense, operating a horse ambulance service among other things. Many of their rescue horses are BLM stock and Turtle Rock Rescue participates in the national wild horse adopter mentoring program.
Virginia Range Wildlife Protection Association
Whole Horse Institute
Wild Horse Organized Assistance (WHOA)
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American Mustang and Burro Assn., Inc. (AMBA)
American Dominant Gray/Roan Registry
American Indian Horse Registry
American Mustang and Burro Assn., Inc.
American Mustang Association, Inc.
American Painted Mustang Registry
American Sulphur Horse Association ASHA was formed in 2003 to protect, promote, preserve, and educate about the rare and beautiful Spanish American or Iberian American Sulphur Horse. ASHA is a full-service breed Association and Registry for owners of Spanish American Sulphur and Half- Spanish American Sulphur horses.
International Buckskin Horse Assn.
International Striped Horse Assn.
Kiger/Maestano Assc.
Midstates Mule and Donkey Show Society
Mustang Breeders & Exhibitors Association
MBEA is a registry and breed association whose efforts are directed toward the preservation of
the breed. We do, however, offer an Appendix registry for halfbreeds. This registry was founded not to
improve the breed by outcrossing in order to breed up physical traits or to bring out another breeds
characteristics, but to enjoy the Mustang as nature bred him. We find value in the breed itself and in all
its variations. The Association offers breeders programs and a points program to exhibitors. Our aim
is to positively project the image of the mustang and to protect it.
Mustang Performance Horse Registry
MPHR registers mustangs and burros, and their offspring, that can demonstrate a feral
lineage, however the individual animal must also have competed in some judged event. The intent of the registry is to promote mustangs in competition and foster communication
about wild herds and training adopted animals. Registered animals will receive a nice registration certificate which lists submitted qualifying competitive events on the back.
National Mustang Association
North American Mustang Assn. & Registry
Pinto Horse Assn. Of America, Inc. Mares can be hardship registered based on color alone. Geldings can be
registered on color alone without hardship fees. Stallions cannot be registered
without having approved outcross registration of sire and dam. Unable to
accept any animals with appaloosa, draft, donkey or mule breeding and/or
characteristics.
Pryor Mountain Mustang Association
Sorraia Mustang Studbook
The Sorraia Mustang Studbook (SMS) has been established to record available data of all
Sorraia-type mustangs (dun/grullo), keep track of the horses, and encourage selective breeding for this
type, as a means to help preserve the subspeices. The SMS does not rival any other mustang registry
and does register horses strictly on conformation, regardless of the herd management area they were
captured in or other mustang assocation(s) that they may also be registered with.
At this point free registration is available and consists of data-recording only; no papers issued. Issuing
of registration certificates optional at $25.00 per horse. If you are a mustang owner and feel your horse(s)
may qualify, please write to the SMS, sending in the following: 5 color photographs, front view, side
view, headshot directly from one side, dorsal stripe, BLM number or number of Mustang registry if the horse
does not have a BLM number; sex, birthdate, height, name and address of owner.
Sulphur Springs Herd Mustang Registry
This registry is for mustangs gathered from the Sulphur Springs catchment area
in Southern Utah.
Western States Wild Horse & Burro Expo
1940 View Crest Drive
The WSWHBE hosts the annual three day wild horse and burro expo and adoption each August at the Reno Livestock Events Center. The expo includes demonstrations, competitions, vendors, adoptions of saddle trained and halter started horses and a host of related activities.
Wild Horses of America Registry
Offers Wild Horse and Burro Diary. Acceptability of registration is not based
on blood lines, color or conformation. Currently, all freezemarked wild horses
and burros from BLM and from the White Sands Missile Range are accepted. Foals
not freezemarked will be accepted if conception occurred in the wild prior to
capture as determined by the mares capture date and foal birth date. Any
offspring of a mare, stallion, jenny or jack already registered in this
registry will be accepted.
The ISPMB is active in the rescue and rehabilitation of BLM Mustangs and
Burros through their Operation Wild Horse and Burro Rescue program. The
rescue group stays in contact with the auction houses in the State of Arizona.
Whenever a BLM Mustang or Burro is put up for auction, the group purchases
the animal, brings them back to the ISPMB facility, rehabilitates the
animal and finds and adoptive and/or permanent home. These animals are also
used to rehabilitate young and old people alike through the ISPMB Volunteer
program. They are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. They produce a quarterly
newsletter through funds raised by donations. The donations are also used to
feed the current herd and purchase auctioned animals.
If there is a change in your organization's address or telephone contact,
or of you know of a wild horse or burro organization which we haven't listed,
please email us!
This is not a BLM operated or BLM sponsored site. It
is run by private wild horse and burro enthusiasts.
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American Buckskin Registry Assn.
American Donkey and Mule Society
