As published by the Casper Star Tribune
Federal authorities broke the law when they removed wild horses from Wyoming’s checkerboard region in 2014, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
Horse advocates had argued the Bureau of Land Management illegally treated the entire checkerboard area -- made up of ... Read More
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October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
Denver (Oct. 14, 2016) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit today issued a landmark decision that stops the Bureau of Land Management from wiping out wild horses from over one million acres of public land in the Wyoming Checkerboard.
The ruling holds that BLM violated two federal ... Read More
October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
Update: Read the full press release here.
Another win for wild horses!
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the Bureau of Land Management violated both the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act when it rounded up 1,263 wild horses ... Read More
October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
As published by Today's News-Herald
A proposal to treat wild burros in Mohave County with the fertility control drug PZP is gaining traction.
For more than four decades, land management agencies have endured an increasingly difficult challenge of how to control the growth of wild horse and burro populations across ... Read More
October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
Return to Freedom agrees the current system is broken: often inhumane in its treatment of wild horses and burros, wrenching them from their home ranges and family bands, and costly for taxpayers. RTF advocates for humane, on-range management of wild horses and burros through the aggressive implementation of fertility control, as ... Read More
October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
Return to Freedom and other members of the wild horse and burro sanctuary community have launched a new organization, the Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Alliance, to help address sanctuary emergencies and bolster sanctuaries over the long term. The Alliance has arranged for several shipments of hay to ... Read More
October 12, 2016AnnieFannie