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The debate over who (tribe vs US govt) should manage the National Bison Range has gone on for decades with members of both parties having differing views. Trump's first Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke was against the transfer of the refuge to the tribe, while Trump's second/final Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt was in favor of the transfer. As part of the federal budget bill signed in December the federal government was directed to transfer the NBR to the tribe.

National Bison Range transitions into tribal trust for the Flathead Indian Reservation
From the U.S. Department of the Interior Jan 21, 2021  0

WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David L. Bernhardt signed Secretary’s Order 3390 and directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to facilitate the transition of property related to the National Bison Range (NBR) to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The BIA will formally take the land into trust for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) of Montana and restore the land to the Flathead Indian Reservation.

“The CSKT have strong and deep historical, geographic and cultural ties to the land and the bison, and their environmental professionals have been leaders in natural resources and wildlife management for many decades,” said Assistant Secretary Tara Katuk Sweeney. “Interior is pleased to continue its partnership and work with them on the restoration of the NBR to federal trust ownership for the Tribes.”

“The restoration of this land is a great historic event and we worked hard to reach this point. This comes after a century of being separated from the buffalo and the Bison Range, and after a quarter-century-long effort to co-manage the refuge with the FWS,” said CSKT Chairwoman Shelly R. Fyant. “And who better to do it than the original inhabitants of the land who depended on the buffalo for centuries? That was our mainstay.”

On December 27, 2020, the President signed into law H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”). Division DD of the Act, the “Montana Water Rights Protection Act,” which includes provisions declaring all land comprising the National Bison Range, total acreage in excess of 18,800 acres, be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribes, administered as tribal trust land, managed by Tribes and included as part of the Flathead Reservation. With the NBR lands transferred into trust, the total acreage taken into trust during the Trump Administration now exceeds 150,000 acres.

The Act also provides for the transfer of other real and personal property to the Tribes, for the continued administration of the NBR, and establishes a two-year period of transition that began on December 27, 2020. To implement the mandates set forth in the Act, Secretary’s Order 3390 directs the Service, BLM and BIA to take action to facilitate the transition and functions of property related to the NBR, including:

1. Updating title records for all real and personal property transferred by the Act, including the NBR lands.

2. Publishing a public notice of trust status of the Range lands in the Federal Register no later than January 19, 2021.

3. Provision of continued public safety at the NBR, including law enforcement and emergency response services.

4. Directing FWS, BIA and BLM to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding to further ensure the United States meets its obligations during the two-year transition period provided by the Act.

The Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs advises the Secretary of the Interior on Indian Affairs policy issues, communicates policy to and oversees the programs of the BIA and the BIE, provides leadership in consultations with tribes, and serves as the DOI official for intra- and inter-departmental coordination and liaison within the Executive Branch on Indian matters.

http://www.charkoosta.com/news/national-bison-range-transitions-into-tribal-trust-for-the-flathead-indian-reservation/article_a277da1a-5acc-11eb-bf17-9f6589ca56cb.html

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Re: National Bison Range (National Wildlife Refuge) Transferred to Tribe
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2021, 06:43:56 PM »
I wonder what this will mean

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Re: National Bison Range (National Wildlife Refuge) Transferred to Tribe
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2021, 06:47:12 PM »
My bet would be the Buffalo chip casino
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Re: National Bison Range (National Wildlife Refuge) Transferred to Tribe
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2021, 06:53:52 PM »
For one thing your Federal pass will no longer get you in, and the tribe can decide what you need to pay to access it.  I was told the tribes plan is to build a big casino near ST. Ignatius and move the entrance to that point.  What I want to know is the US government, (all of us) paid the tribe for that land and now we give it back to them?  I bet this doesn't end well.  But the price of jerky on the rez will probably go down.
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