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For close to 20 years, activists have been working to protect American horses by lobbying for a federal ban on horse slaughter, rallying each year to keep the inspection of horse slaughter plants defunded and continuously working ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
Click here to read RTF's full statement on the Sand Wash Basin roundup.
Over the objections of local and national wild horse advocates, environmental groups and Gov. Jared Polis, the Bureau of Land Management captured 65 wild horses on Wednesday, the first day of a planned 783-horse "emergency" helicopter ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a Preliminary Environmental Assessment that would see the agency remove 801-888 wild horses from the Jackson Mountains Herd Management Area in Nevada.
The 283,775-acre Herd Management Area, located about 60 miles northwest of Winnemucca, Nev., is home to an estimated ... Read More
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation, a national nonprofit advocacy organization, condemned the decision of the Bureau of Land Management to go forward today with a plan to use a helicopter to round up and permanently remove 733 of the estimated 896 wild horses on Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin Herd ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday captured 103 wild horses on the second and final day of an "emergency" helicopter roundup on the Palomino Buttes Herd Management Area, about 15 miles southwest of Burns, Ore.
A total of 253 wild horses were captured, well above BLM's stated goal of ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management plans to capture and remove 1,900 wild horses from the Barren Valley Complex, located in southeast Oregon’s Malheur and Harney Counties, in an “emergency” helicopter roundup set to begin Sept. 8.
The agency said in a press release that the complex, made up of the ... Read More