Get Involved
There are many ways to help the cause. Scroll below to learn more about ways you can get involved.
Volunteer
America’s wild horses and burros need people willing to donate their time in a variety of ways. Tasks may include documenting and taking notes on wild herds, observing roundups, performing organizational and educational work across the country, volunteering to serve as PZP Darters, and more!
If you are interested in volunteering with TCF or would like to learn more, please fill out our volunteer form. You may also contact TCF Executive Director, Kerry Ferguson, at kerry@thecloudfoundation.org
You can help save America’s shrinking wild horse and burro populations by calling, emailing, or writing your Congressional Representative and US Senators.
Your votes and voices matter! Just 10 calls or messages in one day can make a difference. When you email, always ask for a response, and always be polite.
Advocate for Wild Horses & Burros
These officials make or influence policy.
Find your Senators and Representatives: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
President Trump: whitehouse.gov | 202-456-1111 (White House comment line)
Vice President Vance: whitehouse.gov | 202-456-1111
Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum:
exsec_exsec@ios.doi.gov | 202-208-7351(DOI Executive Secretariat)
BLM Deputy Director, Policy and Programs, Michael D. Nedd: 202-208-3801
Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke L. Rollins: 202 720-2791 (Office of the Secretary)
Alt: 202-720-7100 (Executive Secretariat)
Congressional Committees Overseeing
Wild Horse Policy
House Natural Resources Committee
United States House Committee on Natural Resources
Oversees public lands, the Bureau of Land Management, and implementation of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.
Chair: Bruce Westerman | Phone: 202-225-2761
Committee Website: https://naturalresources.house.gov
Email contact form: https://naturalresources.house.gov/contact
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Oversees federal land management agencies including the BLM and USFS.
Chair: Mike Lee | Phone: 202-224-4971
Committee Website: https://www.energy.senate.gov
Contact form: https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact
House Subcommittee on Federal Lands
House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands
Handles legislation affecting BLM and public lands, including wild horse policy.
Chair: Tom Tiffany | Phone: 202-225-3365
POINTS TO MAKE WHEN CONTACTING
Manage Wild Horses and Burros on the range, which has a much smaller price tag for the American taxpayer
Use the fertility vaccine PZP to balance mortality and reproduction
Protect predators in Bureau of Land Management Herd Management Areas and Herd Areas
Reduce or eliminate livestock grazing on lands managed for wild horses
Understand the Real Costs of Livestock Grazing. Read BLM and USFS livestock grazing stats: Examining key data in the debate over wild horses on western public lands
Restore the millions of acres of lost wild horse and burro rangeland
Enlist volunteers to monitor, document, and help administer fertility control to herds on the range
Provide adequate shelter for all horses in holding facilities
Return wild horses in BLM Short Term Holding to repatriated Herd Management Areas and Herd Areas
Stop helicopter roundups. Use bait trapping or darting for application of PZP where needed.
Wild free-roaming horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West; they contribute to the diversity of life forms in America and enrich the lives of the American people
Contact Your Lawmaker
Action Alerts
Below, you'll find the latest action alerts from The Cloud Foundation. These are areas where we could use your immediate help!
Attend a Roundup
Accountability. Documentation. Solidarity. It is incredibly important for public observers to be present at BLM roundups of wild horses and burros to exercise our Constitutional rights, document abuse and hold BLM accountable.
Attend an Adoption
If you attend an adoption for wild horses or burros - thank you! We hope that you will consider taking one home with you. Here are some helpful tips to remember when attending an adoption:
- Take your still or video camera.
- Write down tag numbers of animals in distress and politely ask questions.
- Find out about the horses at the adoption, like where they were captured and when.
- Please encourage your friends who might be interested in adopting to come with you.
Visit a Wild Herd
Want to find a wild horse herd near you?
Planning a visit to wild horse country? Below, you'll find a few tips to remember:
- How do you interact with wild horses? You don’t. Keep your distance and be respectful of their space. You’re in their home, after all.
- Speak in a low voice if you’re talking to other people. Try to be as benign as possible.
- If they're paying a lot of attention to you, you are too close and need to move farther away. In general, if you are impacting an animal’s behavior, you are too close. In the Pryors, the distance to be able to watch horses behaving naturally is usually around 100 feet. It may be much farther in other herds.
- How do you get good photos if you are far away? Get a longer lens. Then, be patient. Hang out near a place that is visited by the horses, like a waterhole or a well-used trail.
- If a foal approaches you, pick up a couple small rocks and aim for their feet or legs. Don’t hurl the rocks, just gently toss them. Keep the foal away and let them know you are not one bit interesting!
- We hope this goes without saying, but: no one should ever attempt to feed wild horses or burros. They are wild animals.
- On hot days, wild horses – like most animals – are not very active during the heat of the day, unless they’re on their way to water. If you’re looking to see a lot of activity, we recommend early in the day or late in the afternoon. That’s the best light to take pictures anyway!
- Being in a small group of people can help in some areas. Large groups of people can scare horses away quickly.
- Pack for varying weather! Layers are your best friends, even in the summer months.
- Bring binoculars and/or a spotting scope, if you have one.
- Do not park your vehicle at a waterhole, even if there is a road down to it. Park away from it and then walk down. A vehicle can stop horses from coming to water.
- Stay on the road with your vehicle. Off-roading sets a bad example for everyone around you. Plus, off-roading causes a lot of damage to vegetation.
