June 23, 2020
Project to transfer hundreds of bison to Rosebud Indian Reservation
Author: Alexus Davila
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) - Rosebud Indian Reservation is expecting hundreds of bison from a variety of places to be transferred to tribal land.
Twenty-eight thousand acres of land, formerly used for cattle, was leased out to the Wolakota Regenerative Buffalo Range project for a span of 15 years to have a total of 1,500 bison roam.
It costs more than a quarter of a million dollars per year to lease out the range, according to the project manager, Aaron Epps.
But he said they received a $1 million