Judge to hear arguments on bison relocation

?AP Photo/Janie Osborne, file

Bison roam outside Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner on March 17.

A skirmish in the fight for Hi-Line grazing is set to take up most of the day in Chinook's Blaine County Courthouse on Wednesday.

Starting at 10 a. m., and lasting an anticipated four hours, both sides of the debate over moving bison herds to Fort Peck Indian Reservation will offer their arguments in front of state District Judge John McKeon, who ordered the hearing last month.

The hearing is the result of a restraining order filed by several Hi-Line ranchers, Valley County commissio...