Interior Dept. to Probe Horse Program

The Interior Department ordered an investigation into whether government employees were profiting from a federal wild horse protection program, including selling some of the animals to slaughterhouses. The Interior investigation, as well as a senator saying he might ask for congressional hearings, was prompted by an Associated Press report outlining abuses within the wild horse and burro protection program. The program is administered by the Bureau of Land Management with the aim of finding people to adopt wild horses that roam federal range land.