WILD PEACE SANCTUARY
ABOUT US
At Wild Peace Sanctuary we care for a small herd of wild horses and burros (donkeys), that suffered abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment following their removal from the wild. We support our equines to live as naturally as possible on the land while engaging them in a range of regenerative agricultural and rewilding practices to improve soil health, increase biodiversity, and aid in wildfire prevention. We offer a seasonal program of workshops with a focus on hands-on learning of traditional crafts and skills, and provide therapeutic support for individuals and groups. We welcome visitors by appointment.
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The sanctuary is located on 35 acres of wood-pasture and wetland meadows, elderberry and alder woodland, and steep forested ridges of Sitka spruce, hemlock, and Douglas fir, five miles inland from the spectacular central Oregon coast. A year-round creek runs east to west through the sanctuary, providing a seasonal home for the cut-throat trout, winter steelhead, and coho salmon that come to spawn here. Native wildlife includes beaver, kingfisher, salamander, red tailed hawk, black bear, blue heron, and black-tailed deer. Our local Roosevelt elk, migratory birds and mountain lions also pass through.
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Many rewilding and nature conservation programs throughout Europe now include semi or fully rewilded equines due to their ability to increase biodiversity and regenerate land. Conversely, in the U.S., wild horses and burros are caught up in a complex web of politics, motivated by profit, and despite their federally protected status, are being systemically and brutally removed from public lands. With the issues surrounding them shrouded in misinformation, we hope to shine a light on their uniquely beneficial presence on the land, and help to protect them on the lands where they originated, and still belong.
MEET THE TEAM
LARA LWIN TREADAWAY
Founder & Land Steward
Lara has been communing with the wild in one way or another for as long as she can remember. An advocate for finding ways to reduce our dependence on the many extractive industrial practices destroying Earth's ecosystems, Lara lives a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity, embedded in nature alongside the animals and plants that she cares for. In addition to founding and running Wild Peace Sanctuary, Lara is a director on the board of R.O.A.D. for Change, a non-profit organization focused on contributing to local food security. A healing practitioner of over two decades, Lara specializes in trauma healing, sacred grief work, and liberation from internalized systemic oppression through a practice of nonviolence. She is passionate about supporting reconnection with nature as a path to holistic healing. Read more about her work with individuals, couples, families, and groups here.​
MARY FLETCHER BEAL
Landowner & Organic Farmer
Mary has been an organic farmer and gardener for more than three decades and is passionate about the need for local food security. She is glad to be able to support the rewilding and regenerative land projects, and the healing opportunities for animals, land, and people, at Wild Peace Sanctuary. The founder of R.O.A.D. (Rural Organic Agricultural Development) for Change, an Oregon-based non-profit focused on developing organic agriculture on rural lands through education and research, Mary is proud to have protected the land she stewards from chemical pollutants for more than half a century. A Cornell graduate, former English professor, and fierce advocate for women's rights, Mary helped to found the first women's safe shelter in Lincoln County on the Oregon Coast. She lives with her St Bernard, Sid, and two black cats, Gordon and Thelma.
SHANNON CRANDELL
Events Manager
Shannon is a graduate of the Permaculture Design course at Lost Valley Educational Center and is glad to be putting her studies into practice as an intern at Wild Peace Sanctuary, working on the land and with the animals, and managing our program of events.
Chandler Passafiume
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Chandler is a graduate of the Permaculture Design course at Lost Valley Educational Center, a writer and a poet. He is enjoying learning more about rewilding, regenerative agriculture, and holistic animal care, as well as coordinating our local volunteers.
“Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them.”
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Robin Wall Kimmerer