Photos and Update: Steve Paige
In a massive 10-day roundup that ended August 14, an estimated 307 wild horses and 18 burros were captured and permanently removed from their home at the Sheldon National Fish and Wildlife Refuge in Nevada.
The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to continue with additional roundups until all wild horses and burros
“This wild horse was put down at the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge on Aug 11, 2014 after being rounded from beyond the distant horizon. It was then pushed for miles by a team of helicopters on a injured leg.” – Steve Paige, reporting from the Sheldon Roundup
August 14, 2014
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Ranger Steve Paige
In response to the lawsuit filed by Return to Freedom and other coalition partners, BLM’s planned capture and removal of over 800 wild horses from Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin, Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek Herd Management Areas (HMAs) has been postponed at least until September 1. On Friday, RTF, AWHPC, The Cloud Foundation, and
Rock Springs, WY (August 11, 2014)….The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has agreed to delay the proposed roundup of more than 800 wild horses in Wyoming to allow the court time to rule on a motion for a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction filed late Friday by the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC),
This Sheldon foal is safe at the sanctuary.
His relatives in the wild are not.
The Roundup of the Last Wild Horses of the Sheldon Refuge Has Begun . . .
August 7, 2014
It is with a heavy heart that I write to tell you that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has begun to roundup the remaining
32,000+ Citizens Sign Petition to Protest Pending Removal of 800+ Mustangs from Designated Habitat Areas
Casper, WY (August 1, 2014) – The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), The Cloud Foundation, and Return to Freedom today filed a lawsuit in federal court in Wyoming to block the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from rounding up over 800 wild horses from the Adobe Town, Salt Wells and Divide Basin Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in the southwestern part of the state. In just over a week, over 32,000 citizens signed a petition protesting this pending roundup.
In an ill-conceived pilot program, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning to send 100 wild burros (rounded up and removed from public lands) to Guatemala where they will live their life in servitude as “beasts of burden” for residents in Guatemala.
Photo: Kimerlee Curyl
Armed protests, bully tactics, lawsuits . . . and now federal legislation aimed at handing OUR public lands over to states where local politics will determine the fate of our wild horses and their habitat. What won’t private interests do to tighten their stranglehold on our public lands?
For decades ranchers have succeeded in
Tentative Roundup Schedule
BY The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC)
Photo: By Lisa Dearing
Government Reveals Data Contradicting Overpopulation Claims
Washington, DC (July 9, 2014)…..The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), a national coalition, today reacted to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) release of its 2014 wild horse and burro roundup schedule by using the agency’s
As part of Return to Freedom’s ‘Wild Horse Rangers- Advocacy in Action’ initiative, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with national coalition members and others to encourage and educate our supporters on how to effectively work with elected officials to help save America’s wild and domestic horses.
July 31, 2014 Return to Freedom joins forces with the
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