WILD PEACE SANCTUARY
ABOUT US
Wild Peace Sanctuary is located on 35 acres of wild meadows, wetlands, elderberry and alder woodland, and steep forested ridges of Sitka spruce, hemlock, and Douglas fir, five miles inland from the spectacular central Oregon coast. A year-round creek runs east to west through the length of the property, providing a seasonal home for the Coho salmon that spawn here, as well as cut-throat trout, and winter steelhead. Other wildlife includes beaver, kingfisher, salamander, red tailed hawk, black bear, blue heron, black-tailed deer, and the Roosevelt elk, migratory birds and mountain lions who all pass through.
We care for a small herd of wild horses and burros (donkeys), rescued and rehomed from situations of abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment following their removal from the wild. We support our animals to live as naturally as possible on the land while engaging them in regenerative agricultural practices to restore and rewild the land, working with grazing ecologies to improve soil health, increase biodiversity, and aid in wildfire prevention. We offer workshops for hands-on learning of traditional skills and creative arts, and provide healing support for individuals and groups, and welcome visitors by appointment.
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Many land restoration, rewilding, and conservation programs throughout Europe include equines due to their unique ability to regenerate the land and increase biodiversity. Conversely, in the U.S., wild horses and burros are caught up in a complex web of politics motivated by profit and, despite their federally protected status, are being systemically and brutally removed from public lands. With the issues surrounding wild horses and burros shrouded in misinformation, we hope to shine a light on their beneficial presence, and help to protect them on the lands where they first evolved, and still belong.
MEET THE TEAM
LARA LWIN TREADAWAY
Founder & Land Steward
Lara has been communing with the wild for as long as she can remember. An advocate for minimizing as many of our attachments as we can to the extractive industrial practices destroying Earth's ecosystems, Lara lives a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity embedded in the land she cares for. She enjoys sharing skills and knowledge that the world needs to restore damaged ecosystems, re-establish lost habitat, mitigate climate change, and reawaken our sense of place in nature. With her values rooted deeply in the Buddhist and animist principles drawn from her own ancestral lines, Lara sees the work of caring for mistreated animals and tending land as a sacred privilege and a healing path of reverence, repair, and reciprocity. As well as her work with Wild Peace Sanctuary, Lara is a writer, poet, and artist; and supports individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, grief, and conflict.
MARY FLETCHER BEAL
Landowner & Organic Farmer
Mary has been an organic farmer and gardener for more than three decades and is passionate about the need for local food security. She is glad to be able to support the rewilding and regenerative land projects, and healing between animals, land, and people, at Wild Peace Sanctuary. The founder of R.O.A.D. (Rural Organic Agricultural Development) for Change, an Oregon-based non-profit focused on developing organic agriculture on rural lands through education and research, Mary is proud to have protected the land she stewards from chemical pollutants for more than half a century. Cornell graduate, former English professor, author, and fierce advocate for women's rights, Mary helped to found the first women's safe shelter in Lincoln County on the Oregon Coast. She lives alone on the top of the hill with her St Bernard dog, Sid, and black cats, Gordon and Thelma.
SHANNON CRANDELL
Events Manager
Shannon feels a deep call to bring holistic healing and a sense of community into the world. She is an artist and a nature lover certified in permaculture design and ecovillage design. She loves qigong and is educated in practices that promote wellbeing and deepen awareness of the relationship between mind, body, and spirit. She is passionate about finding ways to express the interconnectedness of all living beings through the principles of mindfulness, permaculture, and compassionate communication. Shannon has been an avid volunteer for many projects around the world, including Habitat for Humanity, Lost Valley Educational Center, Alchemy School of Healing Arts, and now Wild Peace Sanctuary!
Chandler Passafiume
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Chandler is a writer, poet, and environmentalist with a background in conservation and wildfire protection and restoration. He is a graduate of the Holistic Sustainability Semester at Lost Valley Education Center, and has been working in leadership for non-profits and volunteer organizations for several years. He loves to find the common threads that connect the principles of Health, Beauty, and Spirit, and to communicate those ideas to others through writing, teaching, ceremony and holistic practices. Chandler is excited for his next grade in the School of Life here at Wild Peace Sanctuary.
“Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them.”
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Robin Wall Kimmerer