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A buffalo rests among spring wildflowers on a knoll along Prairie Drive, a scenic route that runs along Mission Creek, within the National Bison Range in western Montana.
July 23, 2016
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Range could return to tribal management
More than a century after the federal government removed more than 18,000 acres of land on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana to establish the National Bison Range, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are working to return the wildlife refuge to tribal management.