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National Bison Range won’t go to tribes after all, says Zinke

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has reversed plans to transfer control of the National Bison Range to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. When tribes called for the change in 2016, they claimed the federal government had taken the land from American Indians without their consent.

Bison will soon be America’s first national mammal

The bison will soon join the bald eagle as America’s national animal—and its only mammal, says The Guardian.