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Article: Bison control may return to Salish, Kootenai tribes near Pablo, Mont.
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- August 18, 2004
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By Jim Adams, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 18--PABLO, Mont. -- The Flathead Reservation may soon take charge of a federal bison herd that it saved a century earlier.
After 10 years of negotiation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have signed a pact with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to assume management functions at the National Bison Range Complex, carved out of the Flathead Reservation in 1908 under President Theodore Roosevelt. The proposed Annual Funding Agreement is now going through a 90-day public comment period, which expires Oct. 11.
Although some opposition has come ...