A 6-month-old sorrel filly died on Monday at the Warm Springs Herd Management in Oregon, bringing to 28 the number of animals that have died during the ongoing helicopter roundup there.
The foal's preliminary cause of death was listed as "gather myopathy." Capture myopathy is muscle damage caused by extreme exertion, ... Read More
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The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday announced another change to its plan to sell an estimated 300 of the wild horses that it intends to capture and remove from the Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory in Northern California.
A total of 295 wild horses have been captured without reported ... Read More
Through Sunday, the Bureau of Land Management captured 664 wild horses, 23 burros and two mules and 27 animals have died during the ongoing helicopter roundup preceding a planned sterilization study of about 100 wild mares.
BLM set out to remove about 652 wild horses from the 475,460-acre Warm Springs ... Read More
Facing increasing public pressure, the U.S. Forest Service on Friday announced that it would lengthen to 90 days the timeframe during which it would sell with some limitations older horses captured during its ongoing roundup at the Devils Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory.
Originally, the Forest Service said that it would ... Read More
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A wild horse advisory panel approved recommendations calling on the Bureau of Land Management to make nonlethal population control the top priority. BLM
The Bureau of Land Management's advisory panel on wild horses and burros sent what some could read as conflicting messages on the use of ... Read More
Statement from Neda DeMayo, Founder and President of Return to Freedom:
"It is devastating that the Agency has decided to take an approach that will prove not only lethal for hundreds of California’s wild free roaming horses, but will set a culture for the USFS that will continue to betray the ... Read More