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Conservation Concerns, Landowner Opposition Stifle Montana Transmission Project

With arms outstretched, Larry Salois walks in slow circles on his mother’s homesteaded property in blustery northern Montana.

His eyes are fixed on the ground as his feet follow a cobble of rocks that form a faint, yet undeniable, circle about 10 feet wide amid tall prairie grasses.

"This is a good one," said Salois, a retired UPS driver who grew up helping his family grow wheat, barley and cattle a couple of miles east of Cut Bank, which borders the Blackfeet Indian reservation. "You can see how the stones form a ring here … and here … and here."

Salois was likely tracing the remains of an ancient teepee ring built hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago by the Blackfeet to anchor their teepees against winds that have battered this landscape for millennia.

By PHIL TAYLOR

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/15/15greenwire-conservation-concerns-landowner-opposition-sti-24147.html?pagewanted=1&sq=em

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