The Sanctuary
The Foundation church relocated animals from an Arizona ranch to the current sanctuary grounds in 1984, informally calling it "Best Friends" and is now a key component of their work, operating the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the nation’s largest no-kill shelter, located in Southwestern Utah near the town of Kanab.
The sanctuary covers 3,700 acres (15 km2) owned by Best Friends, with an additional 33,000 acres (130 km2) leased from the United States Bureau of Land Management. It is located in Angel Canyon (formerly Kanab Canyon), about five miles (8 km) north of Kanab, Utah, at the heart of the “Golden Circle” of Zion National Park, the Grand Canyon's North Rim, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Lake Powell. The land in and around Kanab, including at the sanctuary, was the backdrop for western movies and television shows dating back to the 1940s. Among the dramas filmed in the area were "The Lone Ranger" television series and movies McKenna's Gold and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
National Geographic Channel's DogTown series was filmed at the sanctuary, which is home to approximately 1,700 animals.
Read more about this topic: Best Friends Animal Society
Famous quotes containing the word sanctuary:
“He took the props down used for propping open,
And set them up again for propping shut,
The widespread double doors two stories high.
The advantage-disadvantage of these doors
Was that tramp taking sanctuary there
Must leave them unlocked to betray his presence.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defence-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)