REALLY, Apache Sitgreaves Forest Service?! Relabeling the Heber wild horses as “stray livestock” ?! - Salt River Wild Horse Management Group

April 10, 2026 In Government, UPDATES

REALLY, Apache Sitgreaves Forest Service?! Relabeling the Heber wild horses as “stray livestock” ?!

😡 REALLY, Apache Sitgreaves Forest Service?! Relabeling the Heber wild horses as “stray livestock” ?!

🚫🐎We’ve seen this before — and we are still in a lawsuit about it: sending the Alpine wild horses to slaughter auctions, animal cruelty, shill bidding and selfdealing by contractor Jackie Hughes, all with your approval. 💔🐴

💥 NOT. THIS. TIME. 💥

These are protected wild horses and burros under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act 📜🇺🇸 — you don’t get to rewrite federal law.

👹Blatant disregard for the law, for the public and for innocent animals. ⚖️ . See you in court. (Again.) 🔥

Sincerely, SRWHMG, Defending the defenseless against the United States Forest Service.

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