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• Warne said the program will allow officials at each tribe to tailor their health programming for their specific needs.
• "Won't that be wonderful: tribes setting the agenda for their own research," Warne said.
• The center is being funded by a three-year grant of more than $1.4 million from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and $720,000 for the North Dakota Higher Education Challenge Fund.
• The center expects to employ up to 10 people, including an operational manager, project managers, support staff and graduate assistants. NDSU President Dean Bresciani said he's confident funding will be available beyond the grant period.
• "It's going to be a model, frankly, that quickly extends beyond the state of North Dakota's border," Bresciani said. "I'm very optimistic about the sustainability of this and I think it's of obvious importance to our state."
• Shelley Stingley, program director of the rural health care program for the Helmsley trust, said the goal is to have Native Americans take their training back to reservations. Warne said the "messenger matters in Indian country" and it's important to have home-grown talent.
• "It's fun to be here and know that we are going to do something for our Native American populations, not only in North Dakota, but South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming, Montana," Stingley said. "These are where our large tribes are. These are the people who need the help."
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• Mowers are asked to wait until July 10 in South Dakota and July 15 in North Dakota, due to the later growing season.
• The matter was discussed by the South Dakota governor's pheasant habitat work group this month. The panel was established because the state bird is threated with habitat loss.
• Pheasant hunters spent an estimated $172.5 million in South Dakota in 2012, according to national data cited by state officials.
• Tony Leif, director of the South Dakota Division of Wildlife, said roadside ditches

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