Jack,

Today is National Public Lands Day!

On this special day, we’re celebrating the breathtaking beauty of America’s public lands and all the wildlife, including our wild horses and burros, who call them home. We’re also celebrating the great volunteers, rangers, and advocates who work to conserve these unique and vast landscapes. 

Our public lands are the pride of our nation. But Jack, these lands and the wild herds that inhabit them are at risk. A century and a half ago, the U.S. supported almost two billion acres of public lands. But thanks to land transfers and private sales, only 640 million acres remain protected today.

Our wild horses and burros are in even greater danger. These federally-protected animals live on just 27 million acres of public lands, which they share with extractive land uses such as cattle grazing. Thanks to these private industries, the federal government is pressured to cruelly round up and remove them from even this small fraction of public lands.

We know that there is a better way to protect both our public lands and our country’s wild horses and burros. And here at American Wild Horse Conservation, we’re not just talking about solutions — we’re demonstrating that they are possible. Through our boots-on-the-ground habitat protection and land restoration projects, and our tireless advocacy work, we’re proving that real, sustainable change is possible. 

But we can’t do it alone. We need your help to keep fighting back against the commercial livestock industry that is driving the federal government’s roundup and removal policy. In honor of National Public Lands Day, can you chip in and support our fight to protect wild horses and burros and the public lands they call home?

Thanks for your support, Jack, and Happy National Public Lands Day!

— American Wild Horse Conservation