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Thursday, October 2, 2003

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians have secured the right to purchase 21,322 acres of forest and wetlands.

The land is within the boundaries of the tribe's original reservation. The tribe will now own 70% of the 154,000 acres of its ancestral territory, the chairman says.

The deal negotiated by the Nature Conservancy is the largest private land conservation purchase in state history.

Get the Story:
Tribe has 23,688 more acres to conserve (The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 10/2)
Deal conserves Wisconsin land (The Duluth News Tribune 10/2)

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