LOMPOC, Calif., April 24, 2026/ PRNewswire/– Go Back To Liberty Wild Horse Preservation on Friday required that the U.S. Forest Service right away stop illegal actions towards recording and getting rid of wild horses from Sitgreaves National Park in Arizona.
In a letter to U.S. Forest Service (USFS) authorities, Go back to Liberty (RTF) and fellow advocacy companies Front Variety Horse Rescue and The Gila Herd Structure of Arizona described offenses of federal law in the company’s choice to get rid of horses that it has actually categorized as “unapproved animals”– an effort to remove them of the securities managed by the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.
As described in the letter, the company can just make the animals decision if it brings its problem to show that any specific horse is on public lands “by mishap, neglect, or willful neglect of personal ownership,” which the animal did “not end up being intermingled with wild free-roaming horses.”
The company’s own files show not simply that it has actually not made this proving, however that it can not make this proving. Therefore, the “unapproved animals” classification, which is being utilized to get these horses off public lands without following federal law requireds, is essentially flawed, unjustified, and approximate and capricious.
” We will not wait while the Forest Service gets rid of wild horses from their federally designated environment on the basis of a decision that is lawfully lacking, clinically unsupported, and essentially at chances with the company’s own management strategy and the requireds of federal law,” they composed.
” We advise the Forest Service to act properly and in accordance with the law. These horses are worthy of the security that Congress mandated when it enacted the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and we mean to guarantee that security is maintained.”
The companies require that the USFS rescind or suspend a decision that all unclaimed horses on the forest are “unapproved animals.” The company needs to avoid recording horses around the 19,700-acre Heber Wild Horse Area, which was developed inside the forest in 1974 under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.
” The Forest Service has actually plainly stopped working to please the legal requirement for categorizing these wild horses as ‘unapproved animals,’ consisting of showing that these horses were presented by personal owners which they have actually not intermingled with the federally secured Heber herd,” stated Neda DeMayo, creator and president of RTF, a nationwide not-for-profit wild horse and burro advocacy company.
RTF and its coworkers require that the USFS conduct hereditary screening, behavioral research studies, and field studies to identify the real status of the horses on the Sitgreaves National Park.
SOURCE Go Back To Liberty Wild Horse Preservation