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[newmedman]

yeah, one time I was sentenced to thirty days of community service.. Around here they call it SWAP and it's mandatory, if you don't show up, they hook you up. It's a bunch of stuff like cleaning up roadsides and the forest preserves and stuff.

I met a guy when we were filling out our court forms and he noticed I was a carpenter.

He ran a church that got my sentence miraculously cut down to almost nothing as long as I came in and helped him put up new paneling at night so I could keep my day job. Really nice guy. I still talk with him today. He calls me to make sure I'm staying out of trouble and I keep lying to him LOL.

No sir, no more cannabis. ;-)

Thankfully they never found the blow or I'd be at the dude ranch too.

[blackhawks]

Bison spread as Native American tribes reclaim stewardship

Extensive article at the link.
https://apnews.com/article/science-travel-health-canada-5a7f69c50b4df6a70cf6dbdc40a932b2



Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from beneath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral where 100 wild bison awaited transfer to the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Descendants of bison that once roamed North America’s Great Plains by the tens of millions, the animals would soon thunder up a chute, take a truck ride across South Dakota and join one of many burgeoning herds Heinert has helped reestablish on Native American lands.

Heinert nodded in satisfaction to a park service employee as the animals stomped their hooves and kicked up dust in the cold wind. He took a brief call from Iowa about another herd being transferred to tribes in Minnesota and Oklahoma, then spoke with a fellow trucker about yet more bison destined for Wisconsin.

By nightfall, the last of the American buffalo shipped from Badlands were being unloaded at the Rosebud reservation, where Heinert lives. The next day, he was on the road back to Badlands to load 200 bison for another tribe, the Cheyenne River Sioux.

Most bison in North America are in commercial herds, treated no differently than cattle.

“Buffalo, they walk in two worlds,” Heinert said. ”Are they commercial or are they wildlife? From the tribal perspective, we’ve always deemed them as wildlife, or to take it a step further, as a relative.”

Restoring the balance, one animal at a time.