We pledge our efforts to fund legal challenges against the Governmental agencies that continue to further their programs to eradicate native, American wild horses and burros from their rightful public lands.
The Board of Directors of WHFF brings together years of collective equine advocacy expertise while the organization’s Advisory Board is comprised of a multitude of first rate equine welfare organizations and individuals.
WHFF was created to unite and strengthen the stance and progress of several different, yet fully aligned, advocacy driven legal actions. At the time of it’s inception WHFF is combining the cases funded by Habitat for Horses Advisory Council and the First Amendment case with artist/reporter Laura Leigh as plaintiff.
By combining forces the founders of WHFF are confident that not only will the advocacy movement, overall, experience a united synergy but the organization will be poised to more effectively help protect the welfare and safety of wild horses and burros from the onslaught of the Obama Administration’s Wild Horse Harvesting Machine.
Please stay tuned for further updates as the website is improved and if it is at all possible, please donate to the Wild Horse Defense Fund by clicking the Donate-Legal Fund Button. You can be assured that 100% of your donation will go, exclusively, towards funding our attorneys as they press forward with our ongoing legal challenges. You may also donate to the “field” fund to further efforts that create the necessary documentation to bring the information into the Court system.
Thank you for your kind support and consideration.
R.T. Fitch ~ Co-Founder/President
Laura Leigh~ Vice President
Terry Fitch ~ Co-Founder/Secretary/Treasurer
Marjorie Farabee ~ Director of Wild Burro Affairs
- How is the Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF) unique from other wild horse preservation groups?
“WHFF was founded by dedicated advocates who, after consulting with experts in the field, recognized that a concerted, long-term strategy against the Bureau of Land Management’s attack on the American wild horse and the American frontier is an absolutely vital piece of the work needed to save the wild horses and burros. WHFF understands that it is indisputable that without an integrated set of courtroom challenges, the BLM will continue its piecemeal victories against wild horse and burro supporters. With that knowledge, WHFF is prepared to support and staff the best legal team possible to take on this government monolith that is about to succeed in its destruction of the living symbols of our national heritage and origins.”
- What will WHFF do if it succeeds and stops the roundups?
“Stopping the roundups is only a step to the creation of sane and sensible management of an American Treasure on public land. The system will need to be held accountable, that will be an ongoing challenge.”
- What is the BIG picture for WHFF?
“America’s horses are under attack by commercial interests, which are supported and aligned with the BLM, a governmental agency that hides behind vague statutory language and turns words like “protect” and “preserve” into “capture,” “imprison,” and “kill.” It must be emphasized that the horses and burros live on public lands, dedicated by the federal government to the American people as a whole, because of their beauty and nature, and not because of their ability to support the business interests of a select few. This wholesale trading of America’s protected lands and’ desertion of the wild horses by the very agency that has been authorized and empowered to be their guardian is a betrayal not only to the horses who are being injured, captured and dying, but to the American people, who for over forty years have supported the protection of these animals. It is antithetical to the very purpose of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act that the law adopted to keep the horses and burros on the ranges, free to be wild and to represent the American spirit, are progressively being killed, exported and removed so that moneyed interests can invade those lands. If the BLM has it its way, soon enough there will be no wild horses left, and the very reason for the law will disappear forever. It will be the final insult to the will and spirit of the American people when commerce conquers nature and the magic of wild horses ranging American public lands.”
1/28/2012 Update from the Field
Banner photos by Terry Fitch
All Rights Reserved – Wild Horse Freedom Federation, Inc. 2012
