HELENA, Mont. – Governor Greg Gianforte today released the following statement after the Biden administration’s Department of the Interior issued a secretarial order that could impede states’ authority to manage bison:

“The Biden administration’s decision to act without consulting states and the secretarial order ignore the states’ role in managing wildlife, and undermine the longstanding tradition of state-federal coordination. As Secretary Haaland knows, the State of Montana and other states work closely with local and tribal leaders, as well as the federal government when app...