The American Prairie Reserve and Save the Cowboy
The American Prairie Reserve is creating the largest nature reserve in the continental United States. The reserve grows by purchasing critical habitat that connects existing public lands.
Native grassland is more important than most people realize. No grass: no wildlife.
The prairie of northeastern Montana is one of the last places on earth for landscape-scale temperate grassland conservation.
The prairie reserve would need to be ~ 3 million acres in order to be a fully functioning ecosystem with migration corridors and all native wildlife. Conservation easements are placed on land owned by the APR that prohibit plowing native grasses, development, or fragmentation.
Some people are nervous about it. They’ve put up protest billboards.
