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Lynn Donaldson for The New York Times A herd of bison from Yellowstone Park were moved some 500 miles last spring to a fenced pasture on Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation. It was the first time since the 1870s that wild bison had lived on Fort
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A Montana judge has halted further relocations of Yellowstone National Park bison, dealing a significant blow to a government conservation effort struggling to overcome livestock industry opposition. Wednesday's order from Judge John McKeon in Malta
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Sioux and Assiniboine tribal members wailed a welcome song last month as around 60 bison from Yellowstone National Park stormed onto a prairie pasture that had not felt a bison's hoof for almost 140 years. The historic homecoming came just 11 days
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Mont. (AP) — Sixty-five bison from Yellowstone National Park were due to arrive at northeast Montana's Fort Peck Reservation on Monday under a long-stalled initiative to repopulate parts of the West with the iconic, genetically pure animals, a tribal
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Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the government is considering transferring dozens of bison captured outside Yellowstone National Park to federal lands in South Dakota, Colorado and elsewhere. In a letter obtained
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In the middle of it all sits a 26-mile fence designed to contain the buffalo. The top and bottom strands of the "wildlife-friendly" fence are smooth to allow deer to jump over and pronghorn antelope and other creatures to pass under. Inside is a
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Mont. (AP) — American Indians depended on the buffalo for hundreds of years for food, clothing, tools and medicine. Now today's tribes want to return the favor by helping preserve one of the last genetically pure herds in North America.
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A top aide to Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday bison will now be allowed within the Gardiner Basin, which straddles the Yellowstone River and stretches roughly 13 miles north of the park. Bison that go any farther entering the Paradise Valley
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A federal judge denied an injunction sought by wildlife advocates to block the slaughter of Yellowstone bison...Judge Charles Lovell comes after Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer stepped in last month to halt the impending shipment of hundreds of the
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The state Senate bill seeks a ban on wildlife officials from moving the bison to anywhere outside of the National Bison Ridge. The Yellowstone bison is the last major wild herd in the US after their ranks were decimated by hunters and poachers in the
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