Guest post: Remembering Grace
A guest post from a special friend of Return to Freedom: Hello, my name is Eric McCracken. I am a 77-year-old Easterner, a city slicker. More than four years ago my wife of over 35 years, Grace, died from cancer. I wanted to memorialize her in a unique way. She often...
USFS sets out to remove 350 more wild horses from Devil’s Garden
The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday was set to begin a helicopter roundup of 350 wild horses on the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northern California. No capture numbers have yet been posted. The 258,000-acre territory located just north of Alturas in...
RTF raises awareness for wild horses at Hampton Classic Horse Show
Thank you to the many horse lovers who this week welcomed Return to Freedom back to The Hampton Classic, one of the largest horse shows in the United States! We’re grateful to our friend Annie Finch for representing us on Horse Welfare and Animal Adoption Day in...
Watching wild horses in Western Nevada
https://youtu.be/FwP-WhVfz1A This #WildHorseWednesday, we thought we’d share a bit of video from our staffer Ryan. He was on the range in Western Nevada a few days ago when he spotted a band of wild horses about a half mile off. After parking his truck, he was able to...
Congress steps up on wild horse protections, must press for fertility control
Both the House and Senate Appropriations Interior Subcommittees have stepped up and included critical protections for wild horses and burros in their 2026 appropriations bills. The president’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal, released in June, left out standard...
In-Residence Volunteer Diary: From South Korea to California to learn about wild horses
April 19 Hello! I'm JaeHyeon Choi, an in-residence volunteer at Return to Freedom! I'm from South Korea and I'm majoring in Horse/Companion and Wild Animal Science at Kyungpook National University. I'm particularly interested in animal welfare and conservation, and...
Let’s work together to end horse slaughter!
Originally posted March 6, 2025 Let’s get it done! It’s time for Congress to put a lasting ban on horse slaughter here at home and stop American horses — domestic and wild — from being shipped to foreign slaughterhouses. Bipartisan legislation was recently...
Join RTF on Aug. 6 for a webinar on wild horse policy, upholding the law
Please join us from noon-1 p.m. Pacific on Aug. 6 on Zoom for “Crafting Wild Horse Policy and Upholding the Law,” part of our Informed Advocacy Webinar Series! This webinar that will provide context for the steady way Return to Freedom works to push for humane and...
Study examines use of semi-wild horses in rewilding project
A study published this week by the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution looks at the effects of low-intensity semi-wild horse grazing in two rewilding areas in Portugal’s Côa Valley. We’re keenly interested in such research. We see properly managed grazing and...
Grow-w-w-w your donation on July Bonus Day!
Today is the big day: Grow-w-w-w your donation dollar to help us care for the more than 460 rescued wild horses and burros at our sanctuary! From 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 16, until 10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 17,we’ll be competing against other great charities...