At Wild Peace Sanctuary we provide sanctuary for a small herd of wild horses and burros (donkeys) who have suffered as a result of the Bureau of Land Management's removal and adoption programs, and engage them in holistic land management practices, such as conservation grazing, to improve soil health, sequester carbon, increase biodiversity, and prevent wildfire. Our developing healing and educational program offers opportunities for people to participate in and learn about regenerative agriculture, holistic animal care, earth-based living skills, and healing through reconnection with nature. 

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The sanctuary is located on 35 acres of wild meadows, elderberry and alder woodland, and steep forested ridges of Sitka spruce, hemlock, and Douglas fir, just a few miles inland from the spectacular Central Oregon Coast. A year-round creek runs through the property providing a seasonal home for the federally protected coho salmon that spawn here, and cut-throat trout and winter steelhead, along with all the other native wildlife that depends on these waters, including black bear, bald eagle, salamander, beaver, and the black-tailed deer, Roosevelt elk, bobcats, and mountain lions who all pass through.

 

By demonstrating how wild equines offer chemical-free and minimally impactful ways to restore land, we hope to inspire others to adopt wild horses and burros and engage them in similar land restoration work to protect them from being incarcerated in government holding facilities or funneled into the slaughter pipeline. We also aim to raise awareness of how the brutal and systemic removal of this native species from public lands is part of a decades-long, ongoing land grab by private and corporate industry that is devastating the natural ecosystems these keystone herbivores originated and evolved in.