For three of the last four months, Return to Freedom has kept witness on the ground, day after 10-hour winter day, through holidays and freezing temperatures, documenting helicopter roundups in Utah and Nevada and keeping our supporters informed.
Humane observation has proven valuable for holding Bureau of Land Management and its ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
As published by Westways Magazine
In a windswept farming valley bordered by rolling coastal hills, Lompoc (pronounced LOM-poke) lies about 20 miles west of US Highway 101. For a few years during the ... Read More
Click here to read RTF's statement about Secretary Zinke's nomination.
As published by The New York Times
WHITEFISH, Mont. — As a child in Whitefish, a town at the edge of the Continental Divide, Ryan Zinke cut his own trails through alpine forest, swam laps in Whitefish Lake and hiked ... Read More
Click here to read RTF's statement about Secretary Zinke's nomination.
As published by The Washington Post
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Ryan Zinke’s nomination to lead the Interior Department by a 68 to 31 vote.
Zinke will head a department that manages a fifth of the land in the United ... Read More
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management ended its helicopter roundup at the Cedar Mountain Horse Management Area in Utah with the release of 228 wild horses back onto their home range.
The wild horses, ages 6-older, that were released included 104 mares treated ... Read More
Update: HCR 22 (Ivory) died in the Utah Senate on March 9.
As published by The Salt Lake Tribune
Federal management of wild horses has been a dismal failure, resulting in ecological and economic havoc on Utah's public ranges, according to new legislation that seeks repeal of the 1971 statute ... Read More