Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary and Preservation board member Robert Redford this week expressed hope that the Bureau of Land Management and Congress will heed the public’s outcry and embrace humane alternatives, both on and off the range, over the Advisory Board’s recommendation to euthanize 45,000 captive wild horses and burros in long-term holding
PZP vaccine is best way to stave off BLM’s pending “billion-dollar” fiscal crisis
Press Release: June 1, 2016
Contact: Neda DeMayo
805-735-3246, neda@original.returntofreedom.org
38 wild horse advocacy groups press BLM for increased use of humane fertility control as alternative to costly roundups
Santa Barbara, CA (June 1, 2016) …Today, Return to Freedom joined with 38 wild horse advocacy, rescue and
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Washington, DC— Today, America’s horses won some protection for another year! The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee voted in favor of an amendment to the FY17 Agriculture Appropriations bill. The provision continues the block on federal funding for USDA inspections of horse slaughter facilities. Since 2007 when the last horse slaughter facility was
For Immediate Release
Boise, ID (January 4, 2016) . . . Today, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), The Cloud Foundation, Return to Freedom, and Virginia Marie Hudson filed a lawsuit in the Idaho District Court today against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), charging that the agency’s plan to permanently sterilize the entire herd
Lompoc, California, December 16, 2015 – Today just 2 days before the anniversary of the passing of the 1971 Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act, America’s wild and domestic horses have something to celebrate!
This morning, after more than two weeks of ‘horse trading’ and negotiating the final packages for inclusion in the FY2016 Appropriations spending bill – Congress
GOP letter to BLM Biased and Hypocritical
Promotes lack of accountability for ranchers and targets America’s wild horses
RETURN TO FREEDOM
wildhorses@original.returntofreedom.org, 805-735-3246
wildhorseeducation@gmail.org, 206-245-4984
November 16, 2015
LOMPOC, Calif – Return to Freedom (RTF) is challenging the recent letter from GOP Representatives to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze.
According to Neda DeMayo, Founder and President of RTF, the letter
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Jack Carone, wildhorses@original.returntofreedom.org, 818- 675-8112
Grace Kuhn, grace@wildhorsepreservation.org, 804-218-4252
Lakeview, Oregon (November 4, 2015) . . . . The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been forced to reverse its restriction on public observation for a massive wild horse roundup scheduled to begin today or tomorrow in Oregon.
The BLM had intended to allow the public to see just three days
For Immediate Release
August 5, 2015
Contact:
Foundation to Protect New Mexico Wildlife
Alarie Ray-Garcia
505-573-9496Return to Freedom
Neda DeMayo
805-588-5105
SANTA FE, NM. The Foundation to Protect New Mexico Wildlife, founded by Governor Bill Richardson and Robert Redford, and Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation are joining forces to urge federal officials to immediately stop plans to remove the Salt River wild horse
Report Abstract, 1991
Public Land Management: Observations on Management of Federal Wild Horse Program T-RCED-91-71 June 20, 1991
GAO discussed the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) wild horse program. GAO noted that:
(1) BLM removed thousands of wild horses from the range each year without the land condition data that would enable it to determine how many horses
(Introduced in the House)
HR 2825 IH
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2825To direct the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of all public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management that have been identified for disposal under the Federal land use planning process.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 9, 1999
Mr. DUNCAN introduced the following bill; which was
