Beautiful wild horses have roamed the Tonto National Forest near the Salt River in Arizona for hundreds of years. Recently, we were retained to stop the Forest Service from rounding up these horses. On July 31, 2015 the Tonto National Forest published a warning in an obscure publication that unauthorized horses in a portion of the forest near the river would be impounded without further notice beginning August 7th, 2015 and continuing for the next 12 months. Estimates place the number of horses at about 100. As of August 6th, the Forrest Service has agreed to ‘stand down’, which is a good result. I have attached the pleadings that have been filed in Federal Court case # 2:15-cv-01511-NVW. As Judge Wake has requested, we have now served the Defendants with our lawsuit and TRO. On August 12 we had a scheduling conference before Judge Wake. We are still 100% on target with the lawsuit, but there is no longer any need for the TRO. From C.S. Lewis to Gandhi it has been said, you can judge a nation by how it treats its animals. May God help us if the politicians are so beholden to special interests that we decimate these beautiful creatures.

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