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Court: BLM can’t push American Prairie bison off grazing leases
Headline from Montana Free Press
A U.S. District Court judge on Friday granted American Prairie a temporary restraining order against the Bureau of Land Management, blocking the agency’s effort to force the conservation group to remove more than 300 privately owned bison from three grazing allotments in Montana’s Phillips County by…
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On Friday, District Court Judge Brian Morris issued a scathing 29-page rebuke to the Trump administration’s interpretation of the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act it had used to exclude American Prairie.
A U.S. District Court judge on Friday granted American Prairie a temporary restraining order against the Bureau of Land Management, blocking the agency’s effort to force the conservation group to remove more than 300 privately owned bison from three grazing allotments in Montana’s Phillips County by…
A federal judge on Friday blocked a BLM directive to remove bison from Montana federal grazing allotments because they're being managed as wildlife, not livestock, in a move that a Wyoming bison rancher said is good news across the West.
American Prairie's bison will remain on Bureau of Land Management grazing allotments for now after Montana Chief District Judge Brian Morris granted the group a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order.
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