American Prairie, tribes protest proposed loss of bison grazing permits
The nonprofit conservation group American Prairie and a coalition of more than 50 tribes have filed protests against a proposed Bureau of Land Management decision to cancel bison grazing permits on federal land, according to Daily Montanan. The nonprofit conservation group called the proposed move “unlawful, factually incorrect, and procedurally deficient.”
The proposed decision, released in January by the Department of the Interior, would cancel grazing permits across seven allotments in Phillips County, Montana, that American Prairie has used for its bison herd, Daily Montanan reported. Alison Fox, CEO of American Prairie, said the permits had been approved with environmental review and defended for years.
The Coalition of Large Tribes protested separately, warning the decision could make it “unlikely that any tribal government or tribal citizen buffalo herd would ever be eligible for BLM grazing leases,” according to the coalition’s letter cited by Daily Montanan.
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