Congress has left for its August recess without deciding the fate of America’s wild horses and burros. This offers advocates a short window of opportunity to draw attention to the plight of wild horses before members cast their votes in September.
While your representatives and senators are back in their home ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
The Bureau of Land Management on Friday completed the capture and removal of 129 burros from the Marietta Wild Burro Range.
The agency used bait and water trapping to capture 62 jennys, 49 jacks and 18 foals from July 17-Aug. 4. BLM reported no injuries.
Before the roundup, the estimated burro population ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management plans to use helicopter drive-trapping to capture and remove 100 wild horses from federal, state and private lands in and around the Bible Spring Complex near Minersville, Utah, Aug. 15-19.
The Bible Spring Complex is made up of the Bible Spring, Blawn Wash, Four Mile and ... Read More
By Rob Hammer of Wild Horse Tourist
As published by The Salt Lake Tribune
Late last month, Utah’s Chris Stewart introduced an amendment to the Interior Department’s 2018 spending bill that would send thousands of America’s wild horses to slaughterhouses. This action by my own congressman disturbs me deeply, as ... Read More
Horse trainer Angi Murray recently visited Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary with some of her students. A trainer for 25 years, Angi spent 12 of those years working with wild horses at Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue and is ... Read More
As published by E&E News
A federal court on Friday tossed out the Forest Service's attempts to correct a decades-old map error that expanded wild horse territory in a California national forest.
In 2013, the agency redrew the wild horse territory in Modoc National Forest, removing a middle section that had ... Read More