Return the National Parks to the Tribes David Treuer
Image above: Glacier National Park, in Montana, as seen from the Blackfeet Reservation, near Duck Lake.
This article was published online on April 12, 2021.
I. The End Result of Dirty Business
In 1851, members of a California state militia called the Mariposa Battalion became the first white men to lay eyes on Yosemite Valley. The group was largely made up of miners. They had been scouring the western slopes of the Sierra when they happened upon the granite valley that Native peoples had long referred to as “the place of a gaping mouth.” Lafayette Bunnell, a physician attached to the militia, found himself awestruck. “None but those who have visited this most wonderful valley, can even imagine the feelings with which I looked upon the view,” he later wrote. “A peculiar exalted sensation seemed to fill my whole being, and I found my eyes in tears.” Many of those who have followed in Bunnell’s foot
Fire In Theodore Roosevelt National Park Is 80% Contained
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Downed power lines turned a statewide Red Flag Day into an evacuation of the popular resort town of Medora Thursday.
The fire, which burned approximately 3,000 acres to the west of the community on Interstate 94 also closed the four-lane highway for several hours April 1.
The Medora fire is under control, but the extreme fire conditions have continued to impact the western part of the state.
The fire conditions in the region are extreme, according to a National Forest Service spokesperson.
âAnother fire was reported on USDA Forest Service national grasslands on Saturday that started burning into the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. This fire is currently estimated at 30 percent contained burning roughly 1000 acres. Bravo unit and two air tankers were called in for assistance from South Dakota yesterday; the tankers delivered one drop each.
(Watford City, ND) Crews are making progress on the Horse Pasture Fire in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The five-thousand acre fire was 50-percent controlled yesterday. Lighter winds have helped crews battling the blaze. Back-burning is helping to eliminate vegetation to contain the blaze. Fire crews will continue back-burning along U.S. Highway 85 to limit fuel for the fire.
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Gov. Doug Burgum on Thursday declared a statewide disaster as extreme drought worsens, now encompassing nearly three-fourths of the state, up from about half just a week ago.
Meanwhile, wildfires including two large ones in the western Badlands have scorched nearly 53 square miles of land across the state this spring an area roughly equal to the size of Fargo.
âFor the second time in five years, North Dakota ranchers are facing widespread, extreme drought conditions that threaten their herds and livelihoods,â Burgum said in a statement.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map, released Thursday, shows extreme drought in all of the west except for the extreme southwestern corner, along with much of the northeast and a portion of the southeast. Extreme drought is the second-worst of four categories. The southeastern corner of the state is in moderate drought, with remaining areas in severe drought. No areas are yet in exceptional drought, the worst category.
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