Please, feel free to share your photos and experiences with these majestic creatures! The Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund is an all volunteer Nevada non-profit organization. It was organized in 2008 with the mission to protect and preserve the Wild Horses that settle during the winter months in the foothills surrounding Hidden Valley. For the past 19 years, volunteers have monitored herd
health, grazing availability, provided attention to sick and injured horses and foals, aided in state run adoption processes, and installed and mended fencing and cattle guards. Other volunteers are involved in ensuring federal and state departments are working within the statutes that provide protection and care for the Wild Horses. You can visit our website at www.hiddenvalleyhorses.com, where you can find much more information and links to help these wonderful horses. ADOPTIONS
Please visit our website at www.hiddenvalleyhorses.com and click on the “Adoptions” tab on the left to find a picture gallery of our horses as well as our adoption application and agreement. Just fill out the forms and email or snail mail them to us at [email protected] or HVWHPF, PO Box 20052, Reno, NV 89515. We thank you for taking an interest in our horses – adopting one of our historic Virginia Range horses is a huge responsibility. They are precious, innocent victims of some really bad decisions made by our current government. We are dedicated to protecting them and ensuring that they find good, quality, loving homes where they will be able to spend the rest of their lives. DONATIONS
We’d like to thank all our very generous donors for all the support and encouragement we receive throughout the year. As we’ve already mentioned, the Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to ensuring the safety, protection, and preservation of the wild horses that make their home in the western slopes of the Virginia Range, in the eastern part of Reno, Nevada. We consider ourselves very fortunate to watch over these beautiful, gentle creatures – our historic Virginia Range wild horses. This winter has seen a record lack of precipitation and that is clearly reflected in the dried remnants left from last year’s cheat grass. Where we would hope to see tiny green sprouts emerging from the ground by now, is only dry, crumbling stubble. We continue to monitor the health of the horses on a daily basis and help where we can but are restricted with what we can do without a cooperative agreement with the State of Nevada, Department of Agriculture. We continue to reach out to Director Barbee in the hopes of entering a positive dialogue that would allow our organization to better manage the horses and take a larger role of responsibility. Unfortunately, the Department of Agriculture is not responding to any wild horse organization at this time. Your support and encouragement with our endeavors is truly appreciated and vital. We remain grateful and encourage you to check our website often for news and updates. Donations are the life blood of our efforts to sustain and fulfill the goals of our organization. Each year our budget is planned for various projects designed to benefit the horses, such as providing supplemental vitamins and minerals, and maintaining and installing the fences and horse guards across an approximate 8 mile stretch of land. We are also currently working on supplemental water resources for the horses and pursuing the development of protected areas with property owners. We also budget for emergency veterinarian care for sick and injured horses, as well as having to ‘put down’ injured horses and often provide for the removal of the body. We are able to accomplish all of the above and more through donations from individual and corporate sponsors. We ask you to look at all we do and join us in a most worthy cause
