American Wild Horse Foundation (AWHF)

The History of America is Written in Hoofprints

Join the American Wild Horse Foundation as we gather and learn from our shared human-horse history through science, stories, and lived experience.

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Across the West,
the story of the wild horse
is still being written.
In hoofprints on the land,
and in the lives they touch.
Let’s meet that story with care.
Let’s meet it with understanding.
Together we can build a future
where horses remain
wild, free, and understood.

American Wild Horse Foundation

A Living Museum for Wild Horse Stewardship

Through lived experience and modern science, we provide understandable information about wild horses and their care.

Stewards of the Wild

Wild horse stewardship means caring for land and ecosystems while protecting the West’s human-horse history and living stories—held in archives and carried by the wild.
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A Shared Future

Using stories, education, and modern technology, we connect city and range, deepen understanding, and support a more informed relationship with horses, land, and community.
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Its Up To All of Us

America’s wild horses are everyone’s heritage. Through stories like Trey’s, a foal who lost freedom but found his way, we see care restored. Protecting this heritage takes collaboration across generations.
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Bridging Science, Spirit & the Wild

Advancing public understanding, resilience education, and a deeper relationship with the wild, with Trey’s Story (an illustrated children’s book) coming soon.

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A quick, shareable download for classrooms, conversations, and first-step learning.

Trey and a Story of Responsibility

A 10-part true story of Trey, the foal who survived capture, and the steady responsibility that turned one rescue into a deeper lesson in stewardship.
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Trey's Story

Trey did not ask to become a symbol. He was simply born into a world bigger than his small body could understand.
When his freedom was taken, the story could have ended as a statistic. Instead, his journey became a lesson: what changes a life is not force, but clear understanding and steady follow-through.
That is what responsibility looks like in human form. Not sentimental. Not naive. Just a steady refusal to look away from what is real, and a willingness to do the next right thing.
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Funding Collaborative Stewardship

Strategic support for nonprofits, researchers, and community partners.
AWHF invests in people and projects that protect wild horses while strengthening the lands and communities they share. Through targeted grants and support, we partner with nonprofits, researchers, and local leaders working on practical, measurable solutions. We prioritize proposals that use evidence-based methods, clear outcomes, and a respectful approach to complex, real-world landscapes.
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The American Wild Horse Foundation is a 501(c)3) charitable organization.

EIN: 47-4925050 • Mailing Address: 2620 Del Monte Lane, Reno, NV 89511

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