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The American Wild Horse Conservancy – A Historical Land Trust
In 1997, Neda DeMayo founded Return to Freedom to preserve the genetic diversity of the American wild horse, an endangered national symbol and zoological treasure. Ms. DeMayo’s vision called for wild horses to be managed in their original family groups, bachelor band and herds from the same region, maintaining unique genetic lines.

Over the past eight years, Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary, located in California’s Jalama Valley, has served as proof of concept for Ms. DeMayo’s management plan: on 300 acres, over 200 horses relocated from our nation’s public and park lands where they were no longer welcome, represent ten geographic origins, with some genetic lines dating back 500 years and some with documented DNA links to the Iberian primitive horse, the Sorria, which may go back as far as 26,000 years. Population levels are kept in check by non-hormonal, reversible fertility control methods refined through years of train and error on many horse ranges across the U.S., including Assateague Island National Seashore.

Today, just as the American wild horse’s survival as a species is facing mounting threats from the government, Return to Freedom is ready to move to the next phase of its plan: a large scale wildlife conservancy program that will allow genetic lines of the American wild horse to roam freely in natural herds for generations to come.

The purpose of the Conservancy is dual:
*to protect the genetic diversity of the American wild horse for generations to come, through a continued evolutionary journey that cannot be reproduced in traditional breeding programs; and
*to serve as a safe haven for thousands of horses displaced from their original range due to government policies.

Become a part of this unique project
Establishing land trusts with deed restrictions and conservation easements will protect habitat and wildlife for future generations. Within the conservancies, various breeds of wild horses can continue to evolve in natural herds without the thrat of capture and removal.

Return to Freedom has located an ideal piece of land suitable for the purpose of the Conservancy. It is a rich wildlife habitat complete with many small reservoirs and good migratory bird populations. This property, with fertile soil and natural year-round water resources, will be able to sustain up to one-thousand horses.

To begin immediately, funding needs to be raised for the down payment.
Thereafter, contributions currently used to supplement feed on the limited acreage of Return to Freedom’s existing facility can ba reallocated to cover monthly mortgage payments.

Land: 9000 pristine acres in northern California, fully fenced and ideally suited for grazing. There is opportunity for future expansion on adjacent land.
Cost: $5 million
Down Payment: $2 million
Sustainability: 1,000 horses

For more information, please visit www.returntofreedom.org.
For a private tour or to recommend or donate a property to the Conservancy program, please call 805-735-3246. Serious inquiries only please.

Return to Freedom is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible.
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Return to Freedom pioneers innovative alternatives to standard wild horse sanctuary managament while advocating solutions to prevent the removal of wild horses from their natural rangelands.

PO Box 926 Lompoc, CA 93438
Tel: 805-737-9246
www.returntofreedom.org