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Read more about Robert Redford and Return to Freedom It was with great sadness that Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation learned of the death this morning of its friend and board member Robert Redford. “We are heartbroken. We have all lost an irreplaceable artist, activist and environmentalist,” said ... Read More
September 16, 2025Cory Golden
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As our fight for the future of Southwest Wyoming’s wild horses continues, the Bureau of Land Management today confirmed that it will delay a planned helicopter roundup there until at least next summer. The roundup is intended to capture and remove all of the wild horses from the Salt Wells Creek ... Read More
September 10, 2025Cory Golden
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Right now, the U.S. Forest Service is capturing more wild horses like these in a helicopter roundup at Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Territory in Northern California. Our sanctuary gave these 10 geldings and two mares from Devil’s Garden a safe new home in 2019, following another in what has become a ... Read More
September 9, 2025Cory Golden
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The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday was set to begin a helicopter roundup of 350 wild horses on the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northern California. No capture numbers have yet been posted. The 258,000-acre territory located just north of Alturas in Northern California, mainly on Modoc National Forest, ... Read More
September 3, 2025Cory Golden
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Thank you to the many horse lovers who this week welcomed Return to Freedom back to The Hampton Classic, one of the largest horse shows in the United States! We’re grateful to our friend Annie Finch for representing us on Horse Welfare and Animal ... Read More
August 29, 2025Cory Golden
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Both the House and Senate Appropriations Interior Subcommittees have stepped up and included critical protections for wild horses and burros in their 2026 appropriations bills. The president’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal, released in June, left out standard protections that bar the Bureau of Land Management from killing healthy wild horses ... Read More
August 19, 2025Cory Golden