News and Noteworthy

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  Television station KSBY on Friday featured the story of Sutter, a resident of Return to Freedom's American Wild Horse Sanctuary -- and this year's American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' national Horse of the Year. Click here to watch. More about Sutter: RTF resident Sutter named ASPCA ... Read More
November 4, 2016AnnieFannie
  As published by Sanpete Messenger Axtell — The Bureau of Land Management says 25 wild burros that died in an off-range corral in Axtell appear to have contracted a rare virus. The deaths occurred after 236 wild burros were gathered last April and May from the Sinbad Herd Management Area, which ... Read More
November 3, 2016AnnieFannie
  As published by Craig Daily Press New fencing and water projects are being considered to help the Piceance-East Douglas wild horse herd management area, according to a news release from the Bureau of Land Management’s White River Field Office. The plans include reconstructing nearly a mile of four-strand ... Read More
November 2, 2016AnnieFannie
  In June, Return to Freedom joined with 38 wild horse advocacy, rescue and humane organizations to call on the Bureau of Land Management to increase its use of the humane, proven fertility control drug PZP. As published by National Geographic When Nancy Kilian, a self-described ... Read More
October 31, 2016AnnieFannie
  As published by Deseret News Salt Lake City — The nation's wild horse and burro population is growing by 18 percent to 20 percent each year under a budget that has ballooned 433 percent over the past 17 years. Still, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General ... Read More
October 28, 2016AnnieFannie
  As published by Ruidoso News Alto, N.M., herd advocates continue to wait on the court system to grind out an answer on the future of 13 horses that used to run wild, but were rounded up by a resident as nuisances and hauled to Santa Fe by state livestock ... Read More
October 27, 2016AnnieFannie