ROB CHANEY
Sorting out whoâs upset with whom over the recent Montana bison management moves is about as easy as herding buffalo.
Gov. Greg Gianforte on Friday warned the U.S. Department of Interior that a future bison transplant to the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge in northeast Montana should be a state decision. But the federal government hasnât announced any plans for such a reintroduction.
Gianforte previously announced a settlement on April 20 with United Property Owners of Montana (UPOM) declaring the state wouldnât undertake its own bison relocation process in the refuge for 10 years.
UPOM represents ranchers in the area opposed to a bison reintroduction project by the nonprofit American Prairie Reserve (APR). But APR representatives say they werenât the focus of the previous Democratic Gov. Steve Bullockâs effort to allow wild, free-roaming bison in the region. They are happy to keep their herd of roughly 800 animals consider
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Supreme Court case tests reach of tribal law enforcement
Seaborn Larson, Montana State News Bureau
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MISSOULA, Montana (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case stemming from a meth bust that raised questions about whether non-Natives carrying out crimes on state and federal highways running through reservation lands are out of reach from tribal law enforcement’s authority.
The court will hear a case that came out of the 2016 arrest of Joshua Cooley by a Crow tribal law enforcement official on a U.S. highway, technically off the Crow Tribe’s lands yet within its reservation borders. Cooley, who is not Native, argued tribal law enforcement didn’t have authority to search his pickup when they found meth, firearms and wads of cash.
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