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Twin Falls, Idaho (AP) 11-08
The Bureau of Land Management has purchased more than 10,000 sagebrush seedlings from the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe in southern Idaho.
Federal land managers in Twin Falls plan to use the plant seedlings to stabilize and rehabilitate land that was damaged during a 2007 wildfire.
The Murphy Complex fire torched 1,000 square miles of Idaho and Nevada backcountry.
Twin Falls District Bureau of Land Management partnered with tribal members four years ago to build greenhouses on two reservations in southern Idaho.
Students who attend a school on the Shoshone-Paiute reservation helped produce the plant seedlings.
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