Ranchers criticize plans for bison herds at BLM meeting

Ranching interests sharply criticized a private grassland preserve in northeastern Montana as well as a new federal initiative in which new free-roaming bison herds could be established in the West.
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The criticism came Tuesday at a meeting of the Bureau of Land Management’s Central Montana Resource Advisory Committee.

The 60,000-acre American Prairie Reserve in Phillips County, launched by the not-for-profit American Prairie Foundation in 2006, includes about 100 bison. The reserve consists of private land and property leased from the BLM for grazing.

By KARL PUCKETT • Tribune Staff Writer

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