The state Land Board has recommended buying the back half of one of the largest and oldest prehistoric buffalo kill sites in North America.
The state would pay $763,147 for 898 acres adjoining the Ulm Pishkun State Park to the north. That's about $850 an acre.
"That was number one on Fish, Wildlife & Parks' acquisition list," Mary Sexton, director of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, said Tuesday.
"It works for us because we'll get a fair return on our investment and protect some valuable land for the public," she said.
The Land Board is expected to complete the transaction by year's end, she said.
Concerned that developers would snap up the land, the All Nations Pishkun Association had been lobbying the state to buy the remainder of the buffalo jump from Eustance Ranch Inc.
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