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Tribe pays $5M for land where its ancest

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Posted Oct. 03, 2003 Tribe pays $5M for land where its ancestors lived By Peter Rebhahn prebhahn@greenbaypressgazette.com More than 33 square miles of forest and wetlands in far northern Wisconsin have returned to their ancestral owners in the largest private land conservation deal in state history. “It’s a lot easier to do sustainable forest management when one land owner has the management authority, and that was really the driving force behind what we did,” said Matt Dallman, northern Wisconsin conservation director for the Nature Conservancy. The $5-million deal negotiated by the Nature Conservancy transfers one-fifth — 21,322 acres — of the land in the Ashland County reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians to the tribe from Seattle-based Plum Creek Timber Co. “This land purchase enables the band to get back precious land that was once thought lost forever,” Tribal Council Chairman Eugene Bigboy said in a statement. The tribe’s purchase also included another 2,366 acres owned by the Nature Conservancy. The tribe now owns 73 percent of the 124,000-acre reservation on Wisconsin’s main land and Madeline Island. The Bad River Band is one of four Chippewa bands in Wisconsin with reservation lands set aside in the federal Treaty of 1854. About 1,500 of the more than 6,000 members of the Bad River Band live on the reservation. Dallman said the Nature Conservancy, an international nonprofit organization that seeks to preserve wild areas, has worked before with Plum Creek to protect environmentally sensitive land in the South and in New England, and parlayed its relationship with the company into a good deal for the tribe. Plum Creek spokeswoman Kathy Budinick said the deal leaves the company holding 530,000 acres of Wisconsin forest land, but she offered no details on the sale. “The deal made business sense to us,” Budinick said. “We do buy and sell land from time to time, and we’re constantly evaluating what we have and others would like to have.” Dallman said the purchased land consists of many parcels raging in size from 20 to 3,500 acres — all connected by relatively pristine streams, rivers and marshes to Chequamegon Bay and Lake Superior. The deal will protect more than 24 miles of rivers and streams — including frontage on the Bad, White and Potato rivers —and the Kakagon and Bad River marshes, which are among the highest quality wetlands on the Great Lakes coastline. “The forests in this 33-square-mile block are critically important to maintaining water quality,” Dallman said. --------------------- -- Jeff - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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