Company retires lease in Badger-Two Medicine area

Havre Daily News Staff

The Blackfeet Nation of Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation said in a press release Tuesday that some lands sacred to the Blackfeet are one step closer to full and permanent protection.

The release said that Montcrief Oil retired a lease covering more than 7,000 acres in the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Rocky Mountain Front.

The Badger-Two Medicine is located at the intersection of the Blackfeet Reservation, Glacier National Park, and the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Chair Tim Davis said Hansjorg Wyss and the Wyss Foundation f...