Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Feds, tribes meet on land consolidation
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar kicks off a series of meetings Friday between federal officials and Indian tribes over a $3.4 billion court settlement for the government's historic mismanagement of Indian trust accounts. Friday's event in Billings is the first of six consultations with tribes planned over the next several months. The goal is to determine how to spend $1.9 billion from the settlement that is slated for tribal land consolidation. The government intends to buy up fractionated Indian lands from willing owners and then turn those lands over to tribes. Often, hundreds of people, even thousands, share ownership of individual parcels of land on reservations...more
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