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Moving Back Home Together: Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands

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Author: 
Nate Schweber
Year: 
2014

Moving Back Home Together: Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands

Moving Back Home Together: Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands
Moving Back Home Together: Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands

In the employee directory of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Bronc Speak Thunder’s title is buffalo wrangler.

In 2012, Mr. Speak Thunder drove a livestock trailer in a convoy from Yellowstone National Park that returned genetically pure bison to tribal land in northeastern Montana for the first time in 140 years. Mr. Speak Thunder, 32, is one of a growing number of younger Native Americans who are helping to restore native animals to tribal lands across the Northern Great Plains, in the Dakotas, Montana and parts of Nebraska...

endangered species, natural resource management, species reintroduction, species restoration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife management, wildlife recovery, wildlife recovery programs
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Fort Belknap Indian Community
Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes
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News and Opinion
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Environment and Natural Resources

Schweber, Nate. "Moving Back Home Together: Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands." The New York Times. August 25, 2014. Article. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/science/rarest-native-animals-find-haven..., accessed August 26, 2014)

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