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In this 2013 photo, cone collectors like Gabe Thorne, of Hamilton, head up into the high country around the west to climb to the very top of whitebark pine and collect cones from disease-free trees in Sula, Mont. U.S. officials say climate change, beetles and a deadly fungus are imperiling the long-term survival of the high-elevation tree found in the western U.S. (Perry Backus/Ravalli Republic via AP, File)

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Whitebark pine that feeds grizzlies is threatened, US says
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Wed,12/14/22-8:07AM , 259 Reads
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a quarter of the trees that are a key food source for some grizzly bears have been killed by disease, climate change, wildfires and voracious beetles, government officials said as they announced federal protections Wednesday.
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A black-footed ferret is seen in a temporary trap prior to being vaccinated against sylvatic plague, a disease that periodically decimates populations of the highly endangered mammals, at a ferret reintroduction site on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Thusday, Oct. 6, 2022, near Fort Belknap Agency, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

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Northern Plains tribes bring back their wild 'relatives'
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Thu,12/08/22-11:05AM , 258 Reads
FORT BELKNAP AGENCY, Mont. (AP) — Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation generations ago, wiped out by poisoning campaigns, disease and farm plows that turned open prairie where nomadic tribes once roamed into cropland and cattle pastures.
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Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier talks about the abuse she suffered at a Native American boarding school on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in Mission, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Whirlwind Soldier recalled being locked in a basement at the school for weeks as a punishment. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

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Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Sat,10/15/22-8:22AM , 154 Reads
MISSION, S.D. (AP) — After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just four years old, she was put into a Native American boarding school in South Dakota and told her native Lakota language was “devil's speak.”
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Clouds cast shadows near wind turbines at a wind farm along the Montana-Wyoming state line on June 13, 2022. The Biden administration is proposing a new permitting program for wind energy turbines, power lines and other projects that kill bald and golden eagles. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin, File)

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US proposal would permit eagle deaths as renewables expand
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Thu,09/29/22-4:04PM , 272 Reads
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