Dear Friends,
Freedom and his mares nose around on the hillside. Other horses roll in the dust, then shake. Some of the older horses, like 32-year-old Sutter, doze in the sun’s warmth, manes barely moving in the breeze.
It’s spring at RTF’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary. Recent storms turned the ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
As published by E&E News
The Bureau of Land Management is poised to deliver a long-awaited comprehensive plan to Congress outlining strategies to reduce growing herds of wild horses and burros on federal rangelands and the escalating costs to manage them.
BLM is rushing to finish the report after congressional appropriators ... Read More
Click here to send letters to your Congressional representatives in support of the SAFE Act (HR 113 / S. 1706), which would ban horse slaughter and the transportation of horses for slaughter.
As published by The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON -- Horse meat production won’t resume in the U.S. anytime ... Read More
In an unusually strong explanatory statement accompanying the omnibus spending bill passed last week, the House and Senate Interior Subcommittees demanded that the Department of the Interior produce a detailed plan for wild horses and burro management within 30 days.
Return to Freedom agrees ... Read More
As published by The Press-Enterprise
A longstanding ban on federal funding for euthanizing and slaughter sales of wild horses and burros on public lands will continue through the omnibus spending bill approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump last week.
Last summer, the House appropriations subcommittee that oversees the ... Read More
In January, Facebook announced changes to your news feed that have placed greater emphasis on posts from friends and family, but reduced content from businesses and other organizations -- including nonprofits like Return to Freedom.
RTF relies on social media to spread the word about wild horse and burro issues, as ... Read More