Wild Horse Summit 2025 - Online WHB Conference
Hosted by ~
Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates, Save Our Wild Horses,
& Wild Narrative Project!
Join Ginger and Executive Director Kerry Ferguson on Monday, Feb. 3 for Advocacy ABCs!
2:00 pm Ginger Kathrens & Kerry Ferguson – The Cloud Foundation (< CLICK TO REGISTER) – Advocacy ABC’s with the Cloud Foundation (Using the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Herd as an example)
But Wait… There’s MORE!
Summit Speakers & Schedule
*** A wide range of speakers will give participants a broad view of advocacy and wild horse issues over the FIVE DAYS of the conference! This is a great opportunity to share, listen, ask questions, and learn. ***
All times posted below are Eastern Standard Time / EST
Click on EACH speaker name below to sign up for EACH presentation you wish to attend – You may sign up for as many presentations as you like! Click on the speaker’s names below to sign up for their presentation even if you signed up under the general Summit link earlier. Each speakers’ Bios are at the bottom of their registration page.
Thursday, January 30th
3:30 pm Wayne McCrory – RPBio. Wildlife Biologist – Canada’s Last Wild Horses: Science and Conservation
5:00 pm Chris Kman – Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates – Make It An Issue: Building a Relationship With Your Legislators
6:30 pm Holly Bice – The Bice Group – Advocating for Freedom: Driving Change Through Politics and Policy
8:00 pm Screening of Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West & Q&A with Director & Filmmaker Ashley Avis
Speaker Ashley Avis – director of Wild Beauty Mustang Spirit of the West!
Join the Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West watch party to kick off the summit on JANUARY 30, 2025!
**This screening will start at 5 pm PST/8 pm EST on January 30th and will be followed by a Q&A with Director Ashley Avis!
Friday, January 31st
11:00 am Jen Britton & Christian Hunold – Drexel University – Making the Case for Protecting Wild Horses and Burros: A Social Sciences Perspective
12:30 pm Scott Beckstead – The Wild Horse Refuge – Celebrating and Protecting Colorado’s Wild Mustangs
2:00 pm Chad Hanson – Wyoming Mustang Institute – We’re More Alike Than Different: New Tools for Talking About Wild Horse Behavior
3:30 pm Cynthia Smoot – Reporter & News Journalist – Talking to Legislators: Not as Scary as you think
5:00 pm Viktoria Kirchoff – Bonrook: Wild Horse Sanctuary in Australia – Fondation Franz Weber’s Wild Horse Sanctuary in Australia
6:00 pm Marilyn Nuske – Brumbies of Australia – Legal issues faced in efforts to save Brumbies from cruelty, and extinction, in Victoria and New South Wales
7:30 pm Barbara Moore – Equine Collaborative International – What Did Wild Horse Annie Teach Us?
Saturday, February 1st
11:00 am Cecile Zahorka – Photographer & Author – Between Wilderness and Tradition: Explore Free Horses in Europe
12:30 pm Theresa Barbour – Oregon Wild Horse Organization – Wild Horses, Federal Agencies, and Violations of the Existing Laws
2:00 pm Nancy Cerroni – Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Half-Century of Work for the Pryor Mountain Wild Horses
3:30 pm Jetara Sehart – Love Wild Horses – ReWilding endangered wild horses back to their natural habitats
5:00 pm Carol Walker – Living Images by Carol Walker – Stories & Social Media: Caring Moves People to Act
6:30 pm Laurie Ford – Wild Horse Education & Kathy Jenkins – Oatman Burro Rehab and Sanctuary – Wild Burros: On the Front Line
8:00 pm Craig Downer – Andean Tapir Fund / Ecologist – Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Wild Burros and Close Kin in North America
Sunday, February 2nd
11:00 am Jen Caudill – Wild Narrative Project – Demystifying Op-eds and Letters to the Editor: How to Write and Submit with Confidence
12:30 pm Janine Dallow – Wild Horse Advocate – Attending Roundups & Introducing the Carter Wild Horses
2:00 pm Ginger Fedak – Wild Horse and Burro Advocate – Fertility Control: Pros and Cons
3:30 pm Mary Koncel – Center for Animals and Public Policy – Not the Garden of Eden: The USFS’s Management of the Devil’s Garden Wild Horses
5:00 pm William Simpson & Michelle Gough – Wild Horse Fire Brigade – Ending the Range War – Nature-Based WHB Management
6:30 pm Linda Greaves – Saving America’s Wild Horses – 2025 Saving America’s Wild Horses Conference Update
8:00 pm Britta Hesla – Wild Horse Plus Legislative Coalition – A New Path for Equine Welfare Legislation
Monday, February 3rd
11:00 am Jon Eagle Sr – Sung Nagi Kici Okiju – Sung Nagi Ksapa: Wisdom of the Spirit of a Horse
12:30 pm Chandra Rosenthal – PEER – Balancing the Scales: Understanding Livestock Grazing on BLM Lands
2:00pm Ginger Kathrens & Kerry Ferguson – The Cloud Foundation – Advocacy ABC’s with the Cloud Foundation
3:30 pm Michael Standaert – North Dakota News Cooperative – How to Engage with the Media
5:00 pm Heather Hellyer – Save Our Wild Horses – Our Wild Herds Are Disappearing: Is It Too Late To Save Them?
6:00 pm Erik Molvar – Western Watersheds Project –What’s going wrong, and how can we fix it?
7:30 pm Amelia Perrin – AWHC – Protecting America’s Wild Horses: Unveiling the Flaws in the BLM’s Adoption Programs and the Promise of In-the-Wild Conservation
How Does This Virtual Summit Work?
Here’s more info.
Meetings will be held via Zoom!
Once the Summit is completed, all of the speaker presentations will be made available on the
Save Our Wild Horses YouTube and Chasing Wild Horses Wild Horse Advocates YouTube channels. We will provide links on the TCF website, too.