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Update April 11, 2016, Senate passes bill to protect Salt River wild horses

The Senate passed legislation today in a landslide vote of 27-2  that will provide protection to the wild horses that have been living near Arizona’s Salt River.

HB 2340, provides a mechanism to manage the herd of approximately 100 horses that live around the Lower Salt River and Saguaro Lake in a cooperative partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, the State Department of

April 12th, 2016|

Montecito Bank & Trust turns 41, Awards Anniversary Grants to Local Nonprofits

On behalf of all of us at Return to Freedom, we thank Larry Edwards for the nomination, for the Montecito Bank and Trust Anniversary Awards. Special thanks to Wendie Malick for making the PSA!

This Article was Published 3/22/16, Noozhawk, By Jamie Perez for Montecito Bank & Trust.

Montecito Bank & Trust celebrated its 41st anniversary in familiar fashion Thursday, March 17,

April 4th, 2016|

For the Love of a Horse Named Sarge ~ A Promise

 

Dear Friends,

We talk a lot about wild horses-plural…

But as I look out at the horses living peacefully here at the Sanctuary, it’s clear that, like us, these are distinct individuals, who in turn make up family bands and herds. Their family groups are as sacred to them as ours are to us, and this terrible

April 1st, 2016|

Return to Freedom PSA, with Wendie Malick

March 30th, 2016|

Montecito Bank & Trust turns 41, Awards Anniversary Grants to Local Nonprofits

On behalf of all of us at Return to Freedom, we thank Larry Edwards for the nomination, for the Montecito Bank and Trust Anniversary Awards. Special thanks to Wendie Malick for making the PSA!

This Article was Published 3/22/16, Noozhawk, By Jamie Perez for Montecito Bank & Trust.

Montecito Bank & Trust celebrated its 41st anniversary in familiar fashion Thursday, March 17,

March 29th, 2016|

New BLM initiative to control wild horse population stirs controversy

By Rebecca Moss, The New Mexican
March 5, 2016
Last summer, a photographer captured an image of a foal nursing from a mother whose large rib cage protruded, bone by bone, beneath her skin. The animals were among a band of slowly starving wild horses that had been corralled and removed from a range in Nevada by

March 5th, 2016|

TEXT TO GIVE ~ It’s EASY!

 

Making a mobile donation is easy, it’s just a two-step process.

Text WILD to 50555 to give $10 to Return to Freedom

When prompted, reply to confirm your donation.

We hope you will choose to share this and join our mobile community!

These donations help Return to Freedom’s Wild Horse Legal Defense Fund to defend wild horses and burros on

February 20th, 2016|

President Proposes $1.3 Billion Budget for BLM in Fiscal Year 2017

February 9, 2016

BLM Press Release

 

Request addresses critical priorities including sage-steppe restoration, modernizing the energy program, and investing in our National Conservation Lands

February 9, 2016 – WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama today requested a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that further strengthens the Administration’s commitment to restoring and conserving the

February 3rd, 2016|

Reminder-Tell BLM to Abort Invasive Sterilization Research On Wild Mares, comments extended to February 10th!

January 28th, 2016|

Cattle grazing is a climate disaster, and you’re paying for it

 

Published: Grist

By Ben Adler on 12 Jan 2016

 

The rules governing cattle grazing on federal lands are so obscure that your average climate change correspondent hasn’t given much thought to them. But now that a gang of pathetic losers with guns has occupied a federal wildlife sanctuary in Oregon to gripe about the federal government’s audacity

January 16th, 2016|