Return to Freedom Applauds Senators for Investment in Fertility Control, Which Can Replace Wild Horse Roundups as Primary Management Tool After Decades of Controversy
Read the Senate bill language here. Read the guiding report language here.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today expressed gratitude to the Senate Appropriations ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
With the capture of five studs, four mares and foal on Sunday, the U.S. Forest Service is more than halfway to its goal of removing another 500 wild horses from the Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northen California.
Through Sunday, 256 wild horses from California's last large wild horse ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management on Sunday completed a nine-day helicopter roundup in which 558 wild horses were captured and 533 wild horses were removed from their home range on the Fish Creek Herd Management Area in Nevada. Five horses died.
The BLM released 20 of the captured wild horses back ... Read More
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday included language in the Fiscal Year 2020 Agriculture Appropriations bill defunding horse slaughter inspections for another year.
This stop-gap measure has helped us keep slaughter plants inside the United States closed since 2007 as we work to pass the SAFE Act (H.R. 961 / S. ... Read More
Read more about the Fiscal Year 2020 wild horse management proposal supported by Return to Freedom and other stakeholders.
As published by The Washington Post
ELKO COUNTY, Nev. — Wild horses may be symbols of the wide-open American West, but J.J. Goicoechea watched them warily. Under a bright desert sky, ... Read More
On Aug. 20, the U.S. Forest Service delivered 10 geldings and two mares, one of which may be pregnant, to Return to Freedom’s San Luis Obispo, Calif., satellite sanctuary. The horses, ages 9-16, were among the final older wild horses captured by USFS in a helicopter roundup last fall at ... Read More