News and Noteworthy

Read the letter from Congressional Democrats Learn more about the joint stakeholder proposal to Congress supported by RTF As published by The Associated Press Congressional Democrats are demanding the Interior Department produce an overdue report on plans to manage wild horses roaming federal lands in the West after the head ... Read More
October 28, 2019Cory Golden
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A note from RTF:Return to Freedom, which has a 21-year track record of wild horse advocacy and conservation, has been working alongside the country’s two largest animal welfare organizations against a growing push to have wild horses killed or sold to slaughter. We teamed with scientists on population modeling ... Read More
October 25, 2019Cory Golden
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The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday named two new National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board members and the re-appointment of a third in advance of its Oct. 29-31 meeting in Washington, D.C. Susan McAlpine of Kingman, Ariz., has been appointed to represent humane advocacy, replacing Ginger Kathrens of The Cloud Foundation, ... Read More
October 17, 2019Cory Golden
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Roy Dunlap Foundation pledges $32,000 to reward fund in cooperation with Return to Freedom The reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting deaths of 46 wild burros in California has grown to $100,000, following a $32,000 pledge from the Roy Dunlap Foundation. Anyone with information about the ... Read More
October 16, 2019Cory Golden
As published by High Country News Death Valley National Park is stunningly barren. Silt hillsides crowned with rock and scree give way to dry streambeds and barren salt flats, the air dancing under a pitiless sun. The largest park in the lower 48 states, it contains the lowest elevation ... Read More
October 16, 2019Cory Golden
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  As published by Herald and News Although forest personnel are still tagging, cataloging and caring for Devil’s Garden Horses gathered in 2019, more than 300 are now ready to be viewed and selected for transport to their new homes, according to a Modoc National Forest news release. Responding to ... Read More
October 15, 2019Cory Golden