Mustang champions seeks to partner with the bureau of land management wild horse and burro program (WHB) to increase and streamline wild horse and burro placement opportunities

The partnership will be built on transparency, stability, consistency, and professionalism. Mustang champions and the WHB will work in tandem to increase the placement of wild horses and burros into private care through effective communication, innovative marketing, training resources, educational outreach, and financial incentives. The opportunity increase the number of mustangs and burros that are adopted purchased through gentling and training programs position the WHB in the english and western riding communities as a champion of the american mustang, and as a proponents of humane treatment throughout the process of gentling, placing, and training create a mustang training readiness curriculum, with humane training techniques for all equine disciplines, demonstrating the effectiveness with wild horses and burros generate awareness of mustang programs among the english and western riding communities engage and properly train young riders to reinvigorate the equine industry overall connect the mustang community and build goodwill. Activities to be performed we would leverage the mustang champions teams expertise and experience in animal placement and animal training, as well as in marketing and mustang adoption event production to create placement programs, competitive events, humane training curriculum, and educational kiosks and materials. 1. Mustang classic and mustang challenge annual events english and western discipline competitions 2. Whand b program educational kiosks educational popup kiosk elements and materials expected deliverables or outcomes mustang champions goal is 600 mustangs and burros adopted purchased by the end of fiscal 2024 and impacting 30,000 americans with an educational experience. The combined programs will increase awareness, competitive participation, and knowledge of the status of american mustangs and burros and as well as management of the rangeland. Intended beneficiaries americans who have a desire to adopt purchase and own an american mustang or burro americans who want more opportunities to engage with the whand b program trainers and competitors who are seeking new ways to train and compete with american mustangs americans who want to understand more about the status of american mustangs and burros and the rangeland on which they live WHB program and the WHB brand. BLM funding request 710,000.00