Article: U.S. Official Observes Tribes' Buffalo and Ferret Restoration Efforts.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 31 -- FORT BELKNAP AGENCY, Mont. -- Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt floated down the Missouri River and onto the Fort Belknap Indian reservation in northern Montana to observe the Assiniboine Sioux and Gros Ventre tribes' buffalo herd and blackfooted ferret reintroduction program.

His trip the weekend of May 21 was designed to help him retrace the steps of Lewis and Clark who traveled through the area in from 1804-06.

Tribal leaders took the opportunity to showcase their natural resource programs, but also to talk to the secretary about a pending water compact with the state of Montana and ...

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