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Join us May 10 for a fun-filled celebration of the Opening Day of our program season and Spirit’s 30th birthday at our Lompoc, Calif., headquarters sanctuary! See Spirit, the Kiger ... Read More
April 16, 2025Cory Golden
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More threats loom in Washington, D.C., and this has a direct impact on America’s wild horses. We are locked in a federal court battle over the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision ... Read More
April 11, 2025Cory Golden
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Return to Freedom successfully lobbied for Congress’s requirement that the Bureau of Land Management finally abides by its own Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program, a humane-handling protocol during roundups, ... Read More
September 8, 2021Cory Golden
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Dear Wild Horse Advocate, Good news! The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted to approve a Fiscal Year 2019 Interior Appropriations bill that again includes language that would bar the Bureau ... Read More
June 15, 2018Cory Golden
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The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved the Fiscal Year 2019 Agriculture Appropriations bill that includes language defunding horse slaughter inspections for another year. This stop-gap measure has helped us keep ... Read More
May 24, 2018Cory Golden
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Registration is now open for Return to Freedom's summer programs, including a new lineup of Youth and Family Day events! On the first ... Read More
May 20, 2018Cory Golden
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Dear Friends, The easiest part of saving the life of a horse is getting the horse. Anyone faced with providing a lifetime of care and feeding for one horse —much less ... Read More
April 4, 2018Cory Golden
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Dear Friends, Freedom and his mares nose around on the hillside. Other horses roll in the dust, then shake. Some of the older horses, like 32-year-old Sutter, doze in ... Read More
March 31, 2018Cory Golden
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Dear Friends of Return to Freedom, Life is always busy here at Return to Freedom’s headquarters on California’s Central Coast. In 2016, we became aware of a sanctuary in the Midwest in desperate ... Read More
March 8, 2018Cory Golden
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  Today, March 1, is National Horse Protection Day -- and America's horses need your help, right now. Even though the Fiscal Year 2018 federal budget battles remain unresolved, all indications are that the ... Read More
March 2, 2018Cory Golden