ETHETE, Wyo. (AP) — Internal audits show that American Indian tribes have been caught misappropriating tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. But federal authorities do little about it because of a lack of oversight, resources or political will. An Associated Press review shows that tribes are five times as likely as other recipients of federal funds to have weaknesses that create an opportunity for abuses. MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A conservation group has filed a lawsuit to stop a timber sale in the Kootenai National Forest contending it could harm grizzly bear populations in western Montana and northern Idaho. The Missoulian reports that the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed the federal lawsuit last week in Missoula. FORT BELKNAP, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released 32 endangered black-footed ferrets into a 1,000-acre prairie dog colony on the Fort Belknap Reservation. The Great Falls Tribune reports that the agency says disease killed previous releases of ferrets at the reservation in 1997 and 1998. Plague also killed prairie dogs, the main prey of ferrets. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Bridger-area woman who violated a requirement she not own any animals as conditions set in an animal cruelty case has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Billings Gazette reports that Teresa Martin was sentenced last week in Carbon County after a dozen horses were discovered on her property in July. Martin and her husband pleaded no contest in 2011 to 26 counts of animal cruelty.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:55:22 +0000
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