This week, we said goodbye—or, perhaps more fittingly, “see you down the trail”—to Andrea Eastman, a cherished friend of Return to Freedom and a beloved personal friend of RTF founder ... Read More
RTF calls for continued accountability, transparency about new wild horse sales program protections, and passage of the SAFE Act to permanently protect America’s horses from slaughter.
LOMPOC, Calif. — Return to ... Read More
Return to Freedom comment on the Aug. 20 New York Times story about the sale of wild horses to slaughter:
That any wild horse or burro — protected under federal ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management captured 2,708 horses and killed 15 in a pair of roundups that ended this week in Nevada — a continuation of the agency’s failed, decades-old ... Read More
Update on the tragic government helicopter roundups in Nevada:
Callaghan Complex — In the largest roundup in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) history, on the 1.2 million-acre complex of Herd ... Read More
UPDATE: The Bureau of Land Management has captured 1,240 wild horses and killed five during the first week of its largest-ever helicopter roundup, happening now in Nevada.
Those killed included two ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has made changes to its wild horse and burro sales policy that disincentivize making money from selling a wild horse for slaughter and appear ... Read More
A major overhaul of federal public land grazing regulations is happening now, and public comments are accepted until Monday, July 13.
The proposed grazing rule can be accessed and commented ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to capture and remove 2,700 wild horses in two helicopter roundups in Nevada.
The BLM has no plans to treat and release horses with ... Read More
Originally published June 16, 2026
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is expanding public awareness of the plight of America’s wild horses ... Read More