Senator Steve Daines and Representative Matt Rosendale have written to Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland and Bureau of Land Management’s Director Tracy Stone-Manning asking them to extend the protest period following the agency’s approval of a revised grazing permit for American Prairie last week. It wants to use 63,000 acres of fe...
BLM Issues Decision On Bison Grazing Proposal
The Bureau of Land Management issued a proposed decision Wednesday of no significant impact on a bison grazing proposal involving seven allotments in Phillips County held by American Prairie. The proposed decision would allow bison grazing on six of the seven BLM allotments in AP’s proposal. The release of the proposed grazing decision initiat...
Bison Grazing Expansion Approved Following Environmental Impact Report
Federal officials have given preliminary approval to the American Prairie Reserve’s proposal to expand bison grazing on public lands covering about 108 square miles south of Malta in north-central Montana. The Bureau of Land Management says there would be no significant environmental impacts which sets the stage for possible final approv...