News and Noteworthy

Wild Horse Crossing
As published by Ruidoso News Local advocates for wild horse herds in New Mexico piled into a bus at 3:30 a.m. Thursday and headed to Santa Fe to voice their views on an amended version of a state senate bill they feared would ... Read More
February 9, 2017AnnieFannie
Sulphur Springs Wild Stallion Release
Return to Freedom opposes the inhumane and costly system of capturing and permanently removing wild horses from the range (especially by helicopter drive trapping), separating them from their family bands, and placing the vast majority in long-term holding facilities. RTF advocates for the judicious ... Read More
February 9, 2017AnnieFannie
Amber Midthunder
Actor and Return to Freedom youth ambassador Amber Midthunder stars in the FX series “Legion,” which premieres at 10 p.m. EST / PST on Feb. 8. In the series based ... Read More
February 8, 2017AnnieFannie
South Dakota Wild Horse Emergency
Lantry, S.D.–A team of seven is working long hours in blizzard-like conditions to place 520 at-risk horses in new homes as part of one of the largest horse rescues in U.S. history. Control of the privately owned horses was recently transferred from the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs ... Read More
February 7, 2017AnnieFannie
Sulphur Springs Roundup
The Bureau of Land Management on Saturday February 11,  will begin a helicopter roundup of 600-700 wild horses in and around the Cedar Mountain Herd Management Area in western Utah, weather permitting. The BLM plans to separate out and permanently remove from their home range 200-300 "adoptable age" wild horses. Those not adopted ... Read More
February 7, 2017AnnieFannie
Adobe Town
The Bureau of Land Management began a roundup of wild horses on Sunday as part of a University of Wyoming study of seasonal movements in the Adobe Town Herd Management Area. Radio collars on up to 30 wild mares this month as part of the study. Wild horses will be captured in a ... Read More
February 6, 2017AnnieFannie