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• At meeting in Hettinger, N.D., on Saturday, Grand River District Ranger Paul Hancock told nearly 100 farmers and ranchers that the Forest Service regrets that the planned 130-acre prescribed burn southeast of Hettinger escaped containment Wednesday. The Dickinson Press (http://bit.ly/Xm775l ) reports that Hancock says he gave the go-ahead for the burn.
• No injuries have been reported. The fire burned about 10,800 acres between Hettinger and the South Dakota towns of Buffalo and Lemmon.
• The Forest Service says it plans to compensate landowners for damage to fences, hay bales and anything else that burned.
• Residents say the Forest Service did not listen to warnings about conducting the controlled burn.
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De Smet to be Capital for a Day in May
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has announced that De Smet has been chosen to be South Dakota's Capital for a Day on May 10.
• Daugaard and other state officials will have roundtable meetings with De Smet business and community leaders on that day. There will also be a coffee and constituent-outreach hour that day.
• De Smet Mayor Gary Wolkow (WAHL'-koh) says the town is honored the governor has chosen De Smet to be Capital for a Day. He says he looks forward to showcasing new businesses, new medical facilities and a new community center.
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Native American tribes meeting in Nebraska
• ROSALIE, Neb. (AP) -- Omaha and Ponca tribes in Nebraska held a meeting Saturday with an Oklahoma tribe in a ceremony that tribal leaders say is the first such gathering in 50 years.
• The Sioux City Journal reported (http://bit.ly/Zn8Qe9) that leaders from the Omaha Tribe in Macy, Neb., the Ponca Tribe in Niobrara, Neb., and the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Red Rock, Okla., met in Rosalie, which lies within the Omaha Indian Reservation in eastern Nebraska.
• The meeting was held to exchange gifts of tobacco and have tribal leaders smoke together as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago at the Blood Run encampment on the Big Sioux River near Sioux Falls, S.D., said Calvin Harlan, an event organizer and former Omaha Tribe historical preservation officer. The ceremony was open to the public.
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