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
Statement from Neda DeMayo, Founder and President of Return to Freedom:
"It’s disheartening to hear that the Advisory Board has made the same backwards recommendations that caused an emotional backlash from the public each the last two years. The challenge we’re presented with on our public lands is not the fault ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has captured 419 wild horses and seven burros and 24 animals have died during the first week of a helicopter roundup preceding a planned sterilization study of about 100 wild mares.
BLM intends to remove about 652 wild horses ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management recently concluded an "emergency" bait-and-trap roundup at the Antelope Valley and Goshute Herd Management Areas in Nevada. A total of 902 wild horses were captured from Sept. 19-Oct. 2.
Twelve wild horses were killed for "pre-existing conditions" and three as a direct result of the roundup.... Read More