In a stunning win for Wyoming’s thousands of Checkerboard wild horses, on Tuesday, July 15, Return to Freedom and Front Range Equine Rescue, along with wild horse advocates and photographers Angelique Rea and Meg Frederick, successfully defeated the Bureau of Land Management’s decision that would have permanently wiped out the ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
The Bureau of Land Management has moved a planned helicopter roundup of 1,922 wild horses in southwest Wyoming to Aug. 25.
The roundup was to take place on July 15 at Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide, two Herd Management Areas totaling 1.95 million acres the BLM took away from ... Read More
Good news! The House included protective appropriations language for 2026 on July 15. The Senate included protective language in its appropriations bill, released on July 24.
Originally posted June 11, 2025
America’s wild horses and burros urgently need your help!
The president’s 2026 budget proposal does not include annual language barring ... Read More
As co-owners of America’s public lands, we all must continue to oppose the sell-off of public land sales in the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.
Call your senators at (202) 224-3121. Urge them to fight the sale of public lands.
Earlier this week, the Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian ruled that the sales ... Read More
Update: A provision in the budget reconciliation bill that would have forced government agencies to sell off up to 3.3 million acres of public land failed to clear a key legislative hurdle.
The provision, which we strongly opposed, received massive bipartisan blowback.
It would have put upwards of 250 million acres of ... Read More
There are so many heartwarming stories at our sanctuary!
Here's a recent one:
When a little fuzzy burro arrived at our sanctuary following the long ride from the Bowie, Texas, auction, we were thrilled to meet him. He and 14 other burros had just escaped a probable death at a sale pen ... Read More