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• "We're doing it under our terms, and not the fire's terms," he said.
• Lowe said a helicopter would go up late Monday or early Tuesday in hopes of spotting at-risk cattle, some of whom could be wandering in the burn area without water. Firefighters also hoped to find and save domestic animals.
• State Fire Meteorologist Darren Clabo said that even without rain, cooler temperatures are headed to the area, with highs hitting the low 90s. Humidity should also increase, helping firefighters' efforts.
• "Hopefully, that'll help put this fire to bed," he said.
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• OGLALA, S.D. (AP) -- Several residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

are recovering after strong winds tore through the area this weekend, damaging homes.
• Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Salomon tells The Associated Press that the wind blew some trailers away. She says several people suffered injuries when the homes were blown away and were sent to the Pine Ridge Indian Health Services Hospital for injuries. The extent of the injuries is unclear.
• Wayne Weston, the tribe's emergency manager, is surveying the damage.
• The tribe will be working with the Red Cross to provide the displaced families clothing, food and personal items.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota officials are asking the federal government to allow grazing on Conservation Reserve Program acres in the southwestern counties of Bowman and Slope.
• Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says ranchers in the two counties need help getting their livestock through drought. He says it's likely that more counties will make similar requests as the dry conditions continue to worsen.
• Landowners get government payments through the CRP program to take land out of production to guard against erosion and create wildlife habitat. Haying and grazing normally is not allowed.
• Politicians and farm groups in South Dakota also have urged the federal government to open CRP acres to haying and grazing to help drought-stricken ranchers.
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