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The members of Save the
National Bison Range, LLC are deeply concerned that
the U.S. Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service
("USFWS") has once again publicly misrepresented its plans
for gifting away the National Bison Range to the CSKT as
further reparations for America's 19th century western
expansion policies and actions.
The National
Bison Range is a National Wildlife Refuge, not
just any ordinary National Park. It was created by former
President Theodore Roosevelt on May 23, 1908.
Pursuant to the National Wildlife Refuge System
Administration Act, lands, waters and wildlife designated as
"National Wildlife Refuges" are to be stewarded, maintained
and held in trust by the Federal Government, namely, by the
USFWS in perpetuity for the benefit and interest of current
and future generations of ALL Americans, not just Indian
tribes.
By deceptively and dishonestly seeking in their recently
introduced legislation (Section 13 of S.3019 -
The Montana Water Rights Protection Act), without securing
Americans' or Montanans' consent, to transfer the National
Bison Range to the CSKT, which considers itself NOT subject
to the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, as
part of the highly controversial CSKT Water Compact,
Montana's U.S. Senators Daines and Tester have, once again,
betrayed their Senatorial Oath of Office to uphold the
Constitution, to serve all Montanans, and to serve all
Americans.
The Freedom
of Information Act ("FOIA"), is intended to allow
Americans to request and secure copies of federal records
produced, controlled and exchanged by federal executive
agencies with third parties.
To secure confirmation of Senator Daines' and Tester's
motivations and objectives for transferring away to the CSKT
this jewel of the National Wildlife Refuge System, Save
the National Bison Range, LLC has issued three sets
of FOIA requests to various offices and agencies of the U.S.
Department of the Interior. See
links to all FOIAs filed below.
Each of these three sets of FOIA requests posted to this
website below contain informational footnotes and hyperlinks
to critically important and revealing documents relevant to
our effort to Save the
National Bison Range.
Each of these three sets of FOIA requests seeks copies of
records concerning the possible transfer by the USFWS of the
National Bison Range to the CSKT, that each of the offices
and agencies contacted have exchanged with different third
parties, including Senators Daines and Tester, since
2014-2015.
The members of Save the National Bison Range, LLC would
greatly appreciate your further support in stopping this
potential tragedy from occurring without the say of the We
the People. |
