LOMPOC, Calif. — Return to Freedom (RTF) today announced it will be the beneficiary of the 6th annual Daytime Beauty Awards (DBA).
At a luncheon and honoree ceremony, the DBA will recognize and honor America’s wild horses, naming RTF the event’s 2024 beneficiary. The DBA acknowledges the science behind beauty, ... Read More
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
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LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA — Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today demanded that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) take swift action after an advocate captured video of a wrangler kicking an exhausted and downed ... Read More
July 31, 2024Cory Golden
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The Bureau of Land Management’s annual population estimate for wild horses and burros on BLM-managed public lands shows a decrease from 82,883 in March 2023 to 73,520 as of March 1, 2024, the third drop in four years.
“This isn’t any sort of win for the Bureau of Land ... Read More
March 26, 2024Cory Golden
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LOMPOC, CA — Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation vowed on Monday that it will remain vigilant that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) not again pursue the invasive surgical sterilization of wild mares.
In the BLM’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget justification document, posted last week, the agency requested ... Read More
March 18, 2024Cory Golden
LOMPOC, CALIF.—Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Monday urged lawmakers to push wild horse management forward on public lands, not let it take a step back. Congress approved a 4% cut to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program last week as part of a ... Read More
March 11, 2024Cory Golden
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Neda DeMayo received the EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award at the Pegasus Awards Dinner on January 14, 2024, during the US Equestrian Federation (USEF) Annual Meeting in Louisville, Ky.
The EQUUS Foundation and the USEF established the Humanitarian Award in 2009 to honor a member of the equestrian ... Read More
January 16, 2024Cory Golden