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
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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
As published by horsetalk.co.nz
The butchered remains of an extinct horse were found at a site of human occupation potentially dating back more than 16,000 years – a date which suggests they most likely arrived in a trans-Pacific migration.
The dating of charcoal and bone samples from the site’s oldest ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management is set to begin on Sept. 11 a helicopter roundup of 200 wild horses "from the perimeter and outside" of the Onaqui Herd Mountain Area in Utah.
The roundup, expected to last nine days, will be conducted on state and private as well as BLM- and U.S. ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management is set to begin on or about Sept. 6 a helicopter roundup to capture 600 wild horses from the Fish Creek Herd Management Area near Eureka, Nev.
The agency plans to remove about 550 horses, with the balance returned to their home range to include mares ... Read More