About 340 of the 499 wild horses recently captured and removed from their home range on the Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northern California will be offered for adoption and sales with limitations starting on Nov. 2.
Fifty-eight horses have already been placed with adopters or buyers that scheduled ... Read More
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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
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
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
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
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