Click here to read RTF's full statement on the Sand Wash Basin roundup.
The Bureau of Land Management captured 23 wild horses on Thursday, the ninth day of a planned 783-horse "emergency" helicopter roundup on and around Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area.
The BLM announced on Thursday that ... Read More
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SAND WASH BASIN — They start as tiny specks of color in the distance. Lighter colored ones are easier to see from afar, their shades of white, gray and tan contrasting the array of brown and green landscape that makes up the ... Read More
On or about Sept. 15, the Bureau of Land Management plans to begin a 600-horse “emergency” helicopter roundup on the Jackson Mountains Herd Management Area in Humboldt County, Nevada.
In a press release, BLM’s stated reasons for the roundup include what it says are the deteriorating body condition of ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday captured 98 wild horses on the first day of a 1,900-horse "emergency" helicopter roundup on the Barren Valley Complex, located in southeast Oregon’s Malheur and Harney Counties.
Two wild horses were euthanized, but BLM's gather report included no reason as to why they were ... Read More
Click here to read RTF's full statement on the Sand Wash Basin roundup.
The Bureau of Land Management captured 103 wild horses on Wednesday, the eighth day of a planned 783-horse "emergency" helicopter roundup on Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area. A total of 608 wild horses ... Read More
Return to Freedom successfully lobbied for Congress’s requirement that the Bureau of Land Management finally abides by its own Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program, a humane-handling protocol during roundups, starting in Fiscal Year 2020.
Just since Sept. 1, we’ve seen the BLM and its contractor, Cattoor Livestock, repeatedly trod over ... Read More