News and Noteworthy

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  Preliminary results indicate that 25 foals held in a single pen at the Bureau of Land Management's Litchfield Corrals may have died from colitis, or inflammation of the colon. BLM is waiting for results from additional blood and tissue samples that could point to the cause, according to a ... Read More
October 20, 2017Cory Golden
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On Thursday, the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board recklessly voted to approve recommendations that call on the Bureau of Land Management to shoot tens of thousands of healthy wild horses and burros. At its meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., the advisory board recommended that BLM achieve its on-range ... Read More
October 20, 2017Cory Golden
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  Bureau of Land Management officials said on Wednesday that they would not immediately provide a direct response to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board’s recommendation to kill captive animals. Typically, the BLM responds to recommendations or provides a progress report at the board’s next meeting. At today’s advisory board ... Read More
October 18, 2017Cory Golden
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  The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday ended its helicopter roundup Salt Wells Creek / Great Divide Basin / Adobe Town herd management areas in southwest Wyoming's Checkerboard region with 1,968 wild horses captured, separated from their family bands and shipped to holding facilities and 15 dead. On Tuesday, BLM captured ... Read More
October 18, 2017Cory Golden
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As published by KCOY LOMPOC, Calif. - Next year marks the 20th year of operation for Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary which rescues wild horses and burros that are rounded up and removed from natural rangelands. The organization started on about ... Read More
October 18, 2017Cory Golden
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  Return to Freedom is proud to support the bipartisan Horse Transportation Act of 2017, introduced on Thursday by Reps. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn, and Walter B. Jones, R-N.C.  The bill would prohibit interstate transportation of horses in a motor vehicle containing two or more levels stacked on top of one another. “When ... Read More
October 12, 2017Cory Golden