FREE the wild filly THORA of the McCullough Peaks Wild Horses!

On February 22, 2024, the young, wild filly Thora followed her parents, Thor and Takoda, into a bait and trap pen at the McCullough Peaks range in Wyoming. Shortly after, her parents were pushed out of the trap, and Thora along with 3 other young horses, were loaded onto a stock trailer and driven away as their families helplessly watched. 

Little Thora is just 6 months old and was still nursing on her mom Takoda, several times a day. Now Thora is in a dirty Bureau of Land Management (BLM) holding pen 278 miles away from her home. 

The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for Thora and 10 other young wild horses being rounded up over the last 2 months. One of those 10 horses, Kat Billou who was only a year old, died after being taken from her family and put in a BLM holding corral. The other young, healthy, and wild horses removed include 5 month old Skydancer, 6 month old Bandero, colts/young stallions Brumby, Boomerang, Kentucky, and Tomahawk, and fillies Trinity and Juniper. 

Thora is a beautiful blue roan pinto, a copy of her sire Thor and his only living foal on the range. She is beloved around the world and that is why the Bureau of Land Management targeted her for removal. We want Thora released back to the range and reunited with Thor and Takoda, and the other very young foals Bandero and Skydancer returned to their families!

This senseless roundup should have never happened. BLM skipped steps in the decision process and chose to roundup this wild herd, considering it to be an 'easy win'. Over 6,100 people commented on the Decision Process the massive majority asking for the herd to be left alone, but those comments were ignored. The aging herd only numbered 173 before the roundup, barely above the level needed for genetic diversity, but BLM moved ahead with the roundup anyway.

We need 100,000 signatures on this petition urgently so we can deliver it to the White House as soon as possible, before the online auction when Thora, Bandero, and Skydancer will be gone forever! Our message: Free Thora and the other young wild McCullough Peaks horses today and STOP the roundup of the McCullough Peaks wild horses!

Please visit www.saveourwildhorses.net and www.chwha.org for more information and ways you can help Save Our Wild Horses & Burros on America's public lands and in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.