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More questions gallop around federal horse adoption program in Texas

In an effort to control the growing population of wild horses on public lands in the West, the federal government incentivizes people to adopt them. But advocates say the program doesn’t have enough oversight or protections in place to properly care for the animals.

Paul Flahive of Texas Public Radio reports.

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