UPDATE: Our federal court case deciding the future of wild horses in Southwest Wyoming has been stayed as a result of the government shutdown.
A scheduled status conference in District Court at which details of the proceedings were expected to be defined had been set for Tuesday. It will be rescheduled ... Read More
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Some 2,000 wild horses at the Cañon City, Colo., state prison complex will need to be transferred to other off-range holding facilities. About 30 inmates cared for and training captured horses for adoption.
Similar programs remain in California, Nevada, Arizona and Wyoming.
Return to Freedom’s goal is to see wild horses and ... Read More
Thanks to our friend Pamela Anderson, you can help wild horses and burros with every purchase of Pamela’s Pickles from Flamingo Estate!
100% of the proceeds go to Return to Freedom’s work to preserve the freedom, diversity and habitat of America’s wild horses — including the care of nearly ... Read More
The looming government shutdown would provide a reprieve for some wild horses and burros facing removal from the range.
All non-essential personnel would be furloughed and the government would stay closed until the Republican-controlled government can come up with a solution funding the government on a short- or long-term basis.
Bureau ... Read More
Update: The U.S Forest Service has captured 198 wild horses and killed six in an ongoing helicopter roundup on the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northern California.
The USFS lists the deaths as “chronic,” meaning that the horses were put down after being captured for unspecified pre-existing conditions.
The ... Read More
Read more about Robert Redford and Return to Freedom
It was with great sadness that Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation learned of the death this morning of its friend and board member Robert Redford.
“We are heartbroken. We have all lost an irreplaceable artist, activist and environmentalist,” said ... Read More