For Immediate Release
LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA (Feb. 10, 2020) –Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Monday expressed relief that for the first time a presidential administration is proposing a much-needed investment into non-lethal steps to improve the management of America’s wild horses and burros.
Still, concerns remain. President Trump's budget proposal also ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
The Bureau of Land Management continues a wrongheaded pursuit of surgical sterilization methods like ovariectomy via colpotomy on federally protected wild mares and burro jennies despite public opposition and despite Congress’s bipartisan funding to curb reproduction using on safe, proven and humane methods. Surgical sterilization meets none of those standards.
Attempts ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management captured four studs and three mares on Thursday, the first day of a roundup on the Reveille Herd Management Area in Nevada.
BLM plans to remove up to 150 wild horses in a 7-10 day helicopter roundup. Another 25 mares are to be captured, treated with ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has captured 1,203 wild horses through Thursday, the 22nd day of a planned 1,600-horse helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev.
Unusually, the BLM announced that was counting "all of last year's weanable foals ... as adults," resulting ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has captured 1,061 wild horses through Sunday, the 17th day of a planned 1,600-horse helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev.
Unusually, the BLM announced that was counting "all of last year's weanable foals ... as adults," resulting ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has captured 895 wild horses through Thursday, the 14th day of a planned 1,600-horse helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev.
Unusually, the BLM announced that was counting "all of last year's weanable foals ... as adults," resulting ... Read More