Before National Volunteer month comes to a close, we want to take a moment to highlight the deep commitment and hard work of WHE volunteers. April is National volunteer month. Volunteers are the backbone of every nonprofit and provide an essential part of every advocacy movement.
At WHE, our volunteers strive to gain desperately needed reforms to protect and preserve our wild ones in the multi-layered and complex world of public lands management. The work of our volunteers provides essential pieces that fit together, much like a puzzle, to expose all that is wrong and fight to make it right.
From travels to document roundups, range monitoring, investigative work, writing appeals and creating a baseline for our attorneys, outreach to legislators, rescue, our “WHE kids” program and social media, our volunteers stay busy each and every day.
Join us in a “hats off” to our WHE volunteers!
Meet a few of the human pieces of the puzzle. We are grateful to all the extraordinary people who offer all that they can and form our organization.
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Colette Kaluza began working with Wild Horse Education (WHE) back in 2017. Bringing a lifelong career in the court system to her work at WHE, Colette brings an attention to detail, policy and protocol that is valuable both in the field and behind the scenes. Colette had a natural talent for videography and captured essential video like the colt that broke a leg at Pancake setting off precedent setting litigation and legislation to stop roundups. (You can learn more about her work HERE)
Tammi Adams play a vital role on our National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA team). She brings a background that includes a career in nursing and work as an environmental engineer into crafting comments and working with the team writing appeals. (You can learn more about here HERE)
Marie Milliman joined WHE in 2017. Since Marie joinedWHE, she has become a valued member of our team. As an owner of mustangs and a burro, abuse was a subject that tugged at her heart. She became a founding member of the Comprehensive Animal Welfare team we run today.We are grateful to have Marie as an integral member devoted to our CAWP team, and her commitment to continue to expand her work speaking for the wild. (Learn more about her work HERE)
Bobbie Moller joined WHE in 2021 and has become our Idaho point person visiting herds regularly tracking on and off range. (You can see more of her work HERE)
Pam Chandler began working with WHE over a decade ago, nearly from the very beginning. Her work on the WHE Kids program and through educating the public on social media with Laura Snyder Klutey is invaluable.
Laurie
Laurie Ford began volunteering forWild Horse Education in 2022as our dedicated burro specialist. Her love and interest for the long ears spans decades. Documenting roundups and doing research, Laurie has provided invaluable burro centric data. Her work has provided key data that has helped WHE expand our burro-specific litigation and policy work. You can learn about her work HERE.
And a big shout out to all of our other volunteers including our WHE Next Generation program and to all of our other volunteers who give their heart and soul to our wild ones who are too numerous to list!
Our WHE volunteer teams are priceless pieces of all of the work of WHE to protect and preserve our wild ones!
Thank you all!
All of our work is only possible because of your support. Thank you for keeping WHE running for our wild ones.
