Issue Of Subsistence Hunting In National Forest Decided Long Ago, Wyoming Argues

(November 20, 2017, 2:04 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decided 22 years ago that Indians do not have the right under an 1868 treaty to subsistence hunt in Wyoming’s Bighorn National Forest, so the U.S. Supreme Court need not take up the question at the request of a member of the Crow Tribe of Indians who was charged with illegally killing an elk in the national forest, the state of Wyoming says in a Nov. 9 response brief (Clayvin B. Herrera v. State of Wyoming, No. 17-532, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4406)....