Return to Freedom is actively lobbying on six bills in Congress: the House and Senate versions of the Agriculture appropriations bill, Interior appropriations bill and SAFE Act. Here’s a guide to where each stands. Key votes are in red.
WILD HORSE BILLS
Context: RTF and other advocates have ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
Recent University of Cincinnati journalism graduate Paloma Ianes spent late spring and summer as an in-residence volunteer at Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary. She helped with tour and photo safari and helped ensure that workshops ran smoothly, assisted with ranch work, photographed resident horses and burros, created advocacy-related ... Read More
Wild Horse Nation,
In July, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to let the Bureau of Land Management kill healthy wild horses and burros. The same committee also rejected language to prevent horse slaughter in the U.S.
Yesterday, seven members of ... Read More
Update: Reps. Carlos Curbelo, R-Florida, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, have also signed on as original co-sponsors of the wild horse amendment. Both the Interior and Agriculture Appropriations bills have been packaged into a larger appropriations bill called a “minibus,” which is attached to HR 3354.
Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, Peter ... Read More
As published by KSTU-FOX 13
SALT LAKE CITY -- Wild horses bring out the romance and the longstanding divisions at the heart of the American West, and that dynamic was clear as the Bureau of Land Management, the State of Utah, and a number of private ... Read More
As published by Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Rick Danvir with the Western Landowners Alliance told a crowd of several hundred people Wednesday that he was lucky in his early association with the wild horse of the West, working on ... Read More