Wild West Adventure!
Volunteer at the Wild Burro Rescue Sanctuary
The Wild Burro Rescue and Preservation Project is a preserve for America's wild donkeys (burros) nestled in a high sagebrush valley adjoining the southeastern high Sierra mountains.
Surrounded by wilderness; remote, and a half a day's walk from the famous Pacific Crest Trail, the sanctuary is home to 200 burros, horses, mules, hawks, eagles, ravens, coyotes,deer, wild cats, wild fowl, and our old friend the mountain lion, as well as numerous rescued domestic animals. Camp or bunk in a ranch house, eat all the veggie cuisine you want. Work with the animals, gasp in awe at the stars far from any city lights.
All for free!
(It's volunteer work, remember!)
All likeable, responsible, animal-loving people welcome!
How to get here: Hwy 80 or Greyhound bus to Reno, Nevada.
CREST bus from Reno airport to Bishop, CA via Hwy 395 South.
Overnight in Bishop, then CREST bus on to Olancha, CA.
Get off the bus at the Ranch House Cafe in Olancha. Call us at the sanctuary and we'll come pick you up!
Stay days, weeks, or months! All are welcome to experience life in the true wild west!
Wild Burro Rescue
PO Box 10
Olancha, CA 93549-0010
email: wildburrorescue@gmail.com
cellular/voicemail : 760-384-8523
e-fax : 240-255-8498
website updated February 29, 2008 by Karen Gilligan
Click on images to view as slideshow.
you are at the home of www.wildburrorescue.org
Wild Burro Rescue & Preservation Project is a non-profit, tax exempt, animal protection organization
IRS EIN Number: 94-3168144
WBR isn NOT government sponsored!
We appreciate your donation!
Many thanks to
Roderick Schmidt
for the video he produced for Wild Burro Rescue. Now you can have an "inside look" at the goings-on at the sanctuary and see our burros and their home in these 4 different
"YOU TUBE" videos.
The names and times of each video are as follows:
#1: Tour of Wild Burro Refuge & sanctuary.
time: 8:07 minutes
#2: WBR 2
time: 8:25 minutes
#3: WBR 3
time: 4:41 minutes
#4: WBR 4
time: 7:26 minutes
NEW! Take a video tour of the Wild Burro Rescue sanctuary!
photo by Clay Myers
photo by Clay Myers
photo by Clay Myers
photo by Clay Myers
...and other animals...
my encounter with "Desert Spirit"
There she was, a desert coyote...what a beautiful animal. I had been out walking my dogs when my bigger dog "King" started sniffing the air. I knew something was out there in that big stretch of desert. It was then that i saw what it was he had detected: a coyote. I took my dogs back to my house
(I have 5 dogs!) and then I got in my car and drove back to where I had seen this magnificent coyote, laying in the middle of the dirt road...I approached her quietly, talking to her all the while.
When I first saw her, the "Desert Spirit"
She just watched me, she wasn't afraid. I sat near her for many minutes before petting her. She didn't mind at all. She knew I meant no harm. She let me pick her up and put her in the back of my car then back to my place where I put her on the porch giving her food and water, and just sitting with her. She nuzzled up close to me as I sat next to her. I wanted to take pictures of me with her. Once again, she didn't mind at all.
I took her back out on the porch and continued to sit with her, just taking in her courage and beauty. She appeared to be quite old, perhaps she could no longer hunt for she was quite thin. A few times I got up to move and she would get up and move closer to me as if to say "please don't go"...so I stayed.
She stayed that night on the porch and then passed on to the next world the following day.
I felt that this was a real honor and priviledge to have been a part of her last days. I named her "Desert Spirit". She gave me a part of her spirit as I gave her a part of mine. It was one of those memories that will stay with me forever.
- Karen Gilligan, volunteer and webmaster for Wild Burro Rescue
