Media share from the North Dakota News Cooperative on June 23,2026 Goals of local development for a global competitive edge Florida got semiconductors, New York energy storage, North Carolina advanced textiles, Louisiana alternative fuels, Texas got defense and aerospace. North Dakota, beating out 179 other proposals from around the country, got advanced agriculture. On farms across North Dakota, researchers and …
Trump administration repeals rule that allowed bison to graze on public lands (Media Share)
Media share from Mongabay on June 17, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration recently repealed the 2024 Public Lands Rule, which established that conservation should have equal priority with industry when it comes to accessing leases for U.S. public land. That shift in priorities will apply to 245 million acres (99 million hectares) of public land managed by the Bureau of Land …
New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands (Media Share)
Media share from Inside Climate News on June 5, 2026 Tribes with bison herds are seeking negotiations with U.S. Department of Interior officials to ask for an exemption from new rules they have called “DEI for cattle.” By Blaine HardenJune 5, 2026 SEATTLE—Tribal bison were on an extraordinary roll before the second term of President Donald J. Trump. Herds were …
The federal government just banned bison from public land in Montana (Media Share)
Media Share from X (@StoriesBySammi) on June 3, 2026 The federal government just banned bison from public land in Montana. Not cattle. Bison. Interior Secretary Burgum revoked grazing permits for 950 bison on 63,000 acres of federal land in northeastern Montana. The reason? Bison raised for conservation don’t count as livestock under a 1934 law. Bison raised for meat and …
Who Gets to Graze in the West? (Media Share)
Media Share from Sierra Club on June 2, 2026 A federal decision has propelled a Montana nonprofit into the center of a dispute over conservation and public lands By Jessica Baltzersen June 2, 2026 In north-central Montana, Phillips County stretches from the Little Rocky Mountains to the Canadian border in a sweep of high plains. With roughly 4,200 residents dispersed across …
COLT Submits Amicus Curiae Brief Reinforcing Tribal Energy Sovereignty in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al., v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al.. No. 25-170 before the U.S. Supreme Court
May 21, 2026 Agency Village, South Dakota – The Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT)—an intertribal organization representing theinterests of the more than 50 tribes with reservations of 100,000 acres or more, encompassing more than 95% of the Indian Country lands and more than half the Native American population—submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of Petitioners in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. (No. 25-170), in which the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal law precludes state-law tort claims seeking damages from fossil fuel companies for the alleged impacts of interstate and international greenhouse gas emissions. “COLT felt it was important to voice tribal energy sovereignty concerns presented by the case,” said COLT Chairman J …
Trump administration takes aim at American buffalo (Media Share)
Media share from Native America Calling on May 18th, 2026 The U.S. Department of Interior just canceled grazing leases for hundreds of bison on federal land in Montana. The action halts the progress of a well-funded private group, American Prairie, that has been buying up land and acquiring leases in an ambitious conservation plan. The group often provides bison to tribes …