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Cattle graze along a section of the Missouri River that includes the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument near Fort Benton, Mont., on Sept. 19, 2011. A Biden administration proposal would allow the sales of conservation leases on federal lands to restore degraded habitat. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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Biden plan to sell land leases for conservation gets pushback
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Sun,05/14/23-11:20PM , 42 Reads
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An aircraft drops fire retardant to slow the spread of the Richard Spring fire, east of Lame Deer, Mont., on Aug. 11, 2021. A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires. Environmentalists have sued the U.S. Forest Service over waterways being polluted with the potentially toxic red slurry that’s dropped from aircraft. Forest Service officials have acknowledged more than 200 cases of retardant landing in water. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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Pollution lawsuit could curb use of aerial fire retardant
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Sun,04/23/23-10:48AM , 35 Reads
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Fire burns in the hollow of an old-growth redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Calif. The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government lands. The Associated Press obtained details on the government's first-ever national inventory of older forests in advance of their expected public release on Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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US inventory: old forests cover area larger than California
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Thu,04/20/23-4:03AM , 115 Reads
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation's woodlands from fires, insects and other side effects of climate change, officials said Thursday.
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Bison awaiting transfer to Native American tribes walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday is expected to announce a secretarial order that's meant to help more tribes establish bison herds, along with $25 million in federal spending for such efforts. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown,File)

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US to focus bison restoration on expanding tribal herds
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Fri,03/03/23-9:02AM , 31 Reads
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