Governor Gianforte Appeals Judge's APR Bison Grazing Decision

HELENA, Mont. – Governor Greg Gianforte today announced his administration has filed its briefing in the appeal of a judge's decision denying the state's petition for stay after the Biden Administration approved the American Prairie Reserve's request to graze bison on Bureau of Land Management land in northeast Montana.

In briefing, entitled a Statement of Reasons (statement) and submitted to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Board of Land Appeals, the Gianforte administration again requested a stay of the decision pending appeal, highlighting failures by the judge in denying the stay this...