Informal update by R.T. Fitch
Detailed Press Release Coming Soon
This is not a formal release but we wanted to let the Equine Welfare community know that our request for a preliminary injunction to stop the Colorado North Piceance roundup has been denied.
We found out very late last night and really wanted to sleep on it before going public, hence the delay. There’s a certain amount of defeat felt by the team as we did not manage to do what we set out to do which was to keep the horses on their range, but there is a degree of satisfaction in the fact that we set a precedence that had not been set, before. That’s the fact that the court recognized that removing wild horses from their rightful homes causes irreparable damage as outlined in Dr. Don Moore’s excellent testimony. Americans are harmed when their iconic wild horses are stripped from the land and the court agreed, unfortunately it did not carry the weight to argue the legal point that the BLM uses bad data, old numbers and rubber stamps these roundups where horse herds are permanently and forever removed from their homes.
A valiant effort was made by our legal team and we are forever in their debt for all of the blood, sweat and tears that went into trying to save these horses.
We wish that we had better news but we wanted to get this update to you and thank you for all of the good wishes and support.
We are not going away.
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