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The House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee this week recommended allocating $143 million to the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program for Fiscal Year 2025.
While the program would dodge large cuts being taken by other programs, the funding would fall ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
The Bureau of Land Management today posted an updated schedule of its plans to permanently remove 10,444 wild horses and burros from our public lands from April 1-Oct. 30. By comparison, the BLM plans to treat with fertility control and then release ... Read More
Return to Freedom is frustrated and disappointed that bans on horse slaughter and the export of horses for slaughter were not included in the version of the Farm Bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee. The $1.5 trillion package passed on Thursday, 33-21, largely along party lines.
During a ... Read More
Urgent action needed: The next step in passing the House’s version of the agriculture funding bill is a markup session on May 23 at which members will offer and vote on amendments.
Return to Freedom strongly supports a stand-alone bill permanently banning horse slaughter as well as the export of American ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold its annual, legally required public hearing regarding the use of motorized vehicles in the management of wild horses and burros from 3-5 p.m. MT on May 23.
The meeting will be held using Zoom. It will be live-streamed at blm.gov/live.
To provide comment ... Read More
As published by The Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Wild horses will stay in North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park amid fears from advocates that park officials would remove the beloved animals from the rugged badlands landscape, a key lawmaker said Thursday.
Republican U.S. Sen. John Hoeven said he has ... Read More