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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
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
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
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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
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LOMPOC, CALIF.–Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation this week thanked the Senate Interior Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2024 funding package that can improve the management of America’s wild horses and burros.
A national nonprofit advocacy organization, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with lawmakers on ... Read More
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The Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act would expand the Dog and Cat Meat Prohibition Act passed in the 2018 Farm Bill to include equines, permanently protecting American horses from slaughter
WASHINGTON, DC (May 18, 2023) –As equine enthusiasts celebrate Adopt a Horse Month this May, a bipartisan group ... Read More
CHEYENNE, WYO.--Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation announced on May 17, 2023 that it had filed suit in federal court to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from stripping about 2 million acres from wild horses in southwest Wyoming for the benefit of private livestock ranchers.
“This decision must not ... Read More