ESTABLISHED 2010

WELCOME TO CENTRAL IDAHO, THE CHALLIS-IDAHO WILD HORSES

AND WILD LOVE’S PERMANENTLY PROTECTED OREGON WILDLIFE PRESERVE

If You Believe In The Preservation of Our Iconic Wild Mustangs + Wild Places

We are fundraising to cover expenses of water and fencing projects at Wild Love's permanently protected wildlife preserve. For Wild Love Preserve, wild horses lead our way in protecting respective indigenous ecosystems as an interconnected and balanced whole. Your support and the difference you make in wild lives will continue on forever more. Our appreciation is beyond measure.

The video above shares a bird's eye view of acreage we fenced in 2023 at Wild Love Preserve and a bit of the area we need to fence next. We completed our Phase One fencing project in July 2023 and our 225+ wild horses are very happy roaming this rocky terrain that is necessary for their health and well-being. We are fundraising to move forward with the next phases of our fencing, water, and habitat restoration projects. This is a very large and encompassing project. As you can imagine, the costs are very high. We have many miles of wildlife-friendly perimeter fencing to build, corrals to modify, water projects to complete, trees to plant and habitat to restore. If you would like to help, tap the yellow donate button above. Thank you for making a difference on the wild side. - Andrea Maki + Wild Love Preserve

APRIL 2024 MARKS OUR 14th ANNIVERSARY + 2ND ANNIVERSARY AT OUR FOREVER WILD HOME!

READ “AN ANNIVERSARY STORY 2023” BY ANDREA MAKI

WE’VE SPREAD OUR WINGS TO OUR PERMANENT HOME

On June 17, 2022, we convoyed our 187 wild horses from our longtime leased location to our forever-protected wildlife preserve. Safely loading, moving, and working with 187 wild horses was a really big job. Numerous factors and logistics had to be addressed prior to our actual move date. Everyone arrived alive, upright and in good shape. Later, on July 28, 2022, an additional 21 wild Challis mares and equipment arrived after we raised additional funding to cover those moving expenses. Thank you for supporting Wild Love Preserve and our work as a nonprofit wild horse and habitat conservation project over the last 14+ years. Watch video below for what it’s like to be on the road with 187 wild horses. It was a wild adventure!

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SEPT 2021: WATCH NEW WILD HORSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURING WILD LOVE

Below, watch this segment from “Off The Beaten Path: Wild Mustangs” on Wild Love’s youtube channel that includes interviews with some of the stakeholders Andrea Maki and Wild Love Preserve have brought together and worked with over the last 11+ years in Idaho and nationally. While Alhurra public television host, Tony Naddaf's descriptive intros are in Arabic, all of the interviews are in English. We hope you will find respective stakeholder views helpful as it relates to the work of Wild Love Preserve and conflict resolution.

Stakeholder interviews with Andrea Maki; Stone Gossard; Stephen Bauchman, Challis Creek Cattle Co.; Kevin Lloyd, Idaho BLM, Challis Wild Horse + Range Specialist; John W. Turner, Ph.D., Dept. of Physiology + Pharmacology at University of Toledo College of Medicine; Kim Frank, Executive Director, The Science and Conservation Center; and Steve Adams, Executive Director, Youth Employment Program in Salmon, Idaho. Includes demonstration of remotely administering the fertility control vaccine Native PZP-1YR. Click here for more.

JULY 2020: WILD LOVE’S ADOPTIONS OF 2019 CHALLIS WILD HORSES

Watch video featuring some bright spots from 2020 and as we move into 2021. In April 2020, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Wild Love Preserve and later welcomed new family members, bringing our total number of Challis-Idaho wild horses to 165.

WILD LOVE PRESERVE IS A LEGACY PROJECT. Our iconic wild mustangs symbolize pure Americana, unbridled freedom, power, determination, and the wild west. They also offer us a unique opportunity to walk together on behalf of our collective well-being. For Wild Love Preserve, wild horses lead our way to cultivating the health and balance of our wild places as an interconnected whole by way of bridging divides and bringing stakeholders together in a new light. This is a WE project that is about and for us all.

Your support will help us keep the wild in our wild horses and wild places, benefitting the preservation of western wild horses on their home turf and nurturing the legacy of respective indigenous ecosystems for generations to come. 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. If you believe in the importance of lasting wildness, we invite you to join us and make your mark. Thank you for your time and interest in learning more. Watch our narrated video by Wild Love founder, Andrea Maki, below.

Since 2010, Wild Love founder, Andrea Maki’s, consistent and devoted attention to the plight of wild horses has been amazing to witness. A 30,000-foot view and her obvious political savvy have created an unlikely coalition of ranchers, environmentalists, wild horse advocates, and government agencies, working in delicate concert to save these majestic animals. She should be the envy of any activist looking to make a real impact.
— Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam + The Vitalogy Foundation

Andrea Maki, an artist from the state of Washington, has done the impossible. She has gotten the Bureau of Land Management, the community of Challis and Custer County, the area cattle ranchers and environmentalists to work together with WLP. If this model for mustang management works, it could save the wild mustangs, the environment they live in and bring new money to the tiny town of Challis…. and finally be a solution for wild horse management across the West.
— Karole Honas, Ch8/ABC Nightly News, Idaho Falls, May 2014

BRINGING STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY. As a nonprofit, founded in April 2010 by contemporary visual artist and photographer, Andrea Maki, Wild Love Preserve has pioneered an innovative model which engages public and private lands to address all facets of regional wild horse conservation, from our adopted 200+ Challis-Idaho wild horses, to our collaborative work on the range, and creation of our permanently protected wildlife preserve in the heart of Idaho wild horse country.

Viewed as a paradigm project by stakeholders from all sides, the mission of Wild Love Preserve remains steadfast in our efforts 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 regional engagement and benefit. Kindness, mutual respect, science and education are paramount to our mission and sustainability. In addition to saving wild lives and habitat in a lasting manner, Wild Love Preserve has saved American taxpayers over $8.5 million dollars since 2013 as result of our Adoption Project and our collaborative Native PZP-1YR population management program with the Idaho BLM, initiated at time of the 2012 Challis Roundup.

In 2017, we were instrumental in curtailing a proposed BLM helicopter roundup, in favor of a hay bait trap gather, due to our longtime collaborative work with the Challis wild horses and fluid communications with the BLM and stakeholders, read more: Challis Wild Horse Bait Trap Gather.

The Idaho BLM's November 2019 helicopter roundup of the Challis wild horses was the first conducted in seven years following October 2012, versus every 2-3 years which is the typical time-frame, due to Wild Love Preserve's pro-active work with the Challis-Idaho BLM and the implementation of our collaborative and humane management program on the range since 2013. As in 2012, Wild Love founder Andrea Maki worked on behalf of the Challis wild horses to reduce conflicts between the advocates, public and BLM, leading up, during and following this November 2019 Roundup. In 2018 Wild Love Preserve was able to work with the Challis-Idaho BLM on the Environmental Assessment of the Challis Herd Management Area as a collective whole to develop a 10-year pro-active management plan for the Challis Herd in conjunction with, and relation to, this indigenous ecosystem on our multi-use public lands as an interconnected whole. The collaborative work between WLP and the Challis-Idaho BLM continues to set new precedents which serve to benefit our work on all six herd management areas in Idaho, and be helpful for other wild horse regions in the west.

Read overview of Andrea Maki’s invitational talk at the August 2019 international wildlife fertility conference hosted by The Science and Conservation Center.

2022 marks the ninth year of our humane and collaborative Native PZP fertility management program which has proven successful in slowing population growth with free-roaming wild horses on the Challis HMA darting with the BLM on the range, and with Wild Love’s adopted wild horses. By design, Wild Love’s adopted Idaho wild horses have also served as our control herd because management on our private preserve mirrors our collaborative work on public lands. Native PZP enabled us to keep our numbers at roughly 136 between 2013 and 2020, when we adopted horses from the 2019 Challis roundup. We’ve also witnessed firsthand that Native PZP does not result in adverse behavioral issues, does not impact band or herd dynamics, has not altered the natural breeding season, does not negatively impact the fetus or cause birth defects if a pregnant wild mare is darted, and we have healthy babies born to our wild mares ensuring genetic viability.


In 2020 and 2021 we adopted the wild horses from the 2019 Challis roundup needing placement, along with another 8 in 2022, bringing our number of permanent residents to 200+. As per our mission, Wild Love adopts and purchases those Challis-Idaho wild horses that do not find homes through BLM adoption programs, and as we did following the 2012 Challis roundup. Once with us, they live a forever life of wildness together and on their terms in Idaho at Wild Love Preserve.

With your support we will continue saving wild lives, indigenous habitats, and taxpayer dollars. We invite you to learn more, contribute, and inquire with questions.

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, August 2013
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