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Click here to read RTF's full statement on the Sand Wash Basin roundup. The Bureau of Land Management captured 126 wild horses on Saturday, a brutal fourth day of a planned 783-horse "emergency" helicopter roundup on Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area. The roundup's first known death was ... Read More
September 5, 2021Cory Golden
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Click here to read RTF's full statement on the Sand Wash Basin roundup. The Bureau of Land Management captured 16 wild horses on Friday, the third day of a planned 783-horse "emergency" helicopter roundup on Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area. No deaths were reported on Friday. The contractor's ... Read More
September 4, 2021Cory Golden
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On or about Sept. 14, the Bureau of Land Management will begin a helicopter roundup of wild horses on the Four Mile Herd Management Area, located north of Emmett, Idaho. The agency plans to capture 189 wild horses, permanently removing 173 and returning eight mares treated with fertility control ... Read More
September 3, 2021Cory Golden
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As published by Thoroughbred Daily News 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
September 2, 2021Cory Golden
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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
September 2, 2021Cory Golden
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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
September 1, 2021Cory Golden