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Water Rights

Tribal leaders ratify water compact

by Chris Aadland 12.29.202012.31.2020

The CSKT Tribal Council unanimously ratified its water compact with the state Tuesday, settling a decades-long dispute.

Environment, National Parks, Public Lands, State Government

Toll of government shutdown still being tallied at national parks

by Leia Larsen 01.30.201905.12.2020

News, Politics, State Government

John Melcher “benefited farmers, miners, the elderly, the hungry and a constituency of the world’s poor”

by Charles Johnson 04.13.201805.12.2020

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