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says the program helps teach people about other cultures in the world.
• The delegation will make a public presentation of their work at the South Dakota State University Northern Plains Biostress Lab on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
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US Senate approves Minuteman Missile bill
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Senate has approved legislation to construct a visitor center at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota.
• Sens. John Thune and Tim Johnson announced Thursday that the Senate unanimously approved the legislation.
• The bill calls for transferring approximately 29 acres of National Forest Service land to the National Park Service to build a visitor facility and provide parking. The bill now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration.
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Dog birth control shots could limit populations
SUE MANNING,Associated Press Writer
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A decade ago, the Rosebud Sioux Indians in South Dakota were paying people to catch and shoot wild dogs. Dogs that weren't caught were covered in mange and parasites. Some froze. Some starved. In packs, they survived by eating each other. And dog bites were 20 times worse than the national average.
• Because animals are such an important part of Indian history and culture, tribal leaders called spay and neuter expert Ruth Steinberger. In the next eight years, they worked together to sterilize 7,000 dogs, moving 1,500 of them to other parts of the country for adoption.
• Many U.S. tribes still rely on roundups to manage dog overpopulation, but two tribes in the West are going to take part in an experiment this fall using shots of a different kind.
• Veterinarians plan to catch and inject 300 wild female dogs with a birth control vaccine that has worked on white-tailed deer, wild horses, wallabies and ferrets.
• The two-year test using the government vaccine GonaCon is scheduled to begin in September on two isolated Indian reservations in the West, said Steinberger, the project manager. Reservation officials asked not to be identified until the study is further along.
• The $60,000 contraceptive study will be conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Wildlife Research Center and Spay First, Steinberger's Okla (Continued on page 18)
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