Photo by American Prairie Reserve
The nation's largest conservation project
The American Prairie Reserve (APR), is a nonprofit organization based in Montana. It was created in 2004 with the goal of becoming the largest wildlife reserve in the lower forty-eight states. It currently spans 350,000 acres of deeded private and leased public land. The APR intends to eventually acquire and manage a further 500,000 private acres which, when joined with existing public lands, will total approximately 3.5 million acres of unfragmented prairie grassland. The APR’s current holdings overlap with designated core Greater Sage-grouse habitat, and the creation of an unfractured prairie landscape aligns perfectly with APR’s other conservation efforts. The reserve and its neighboring ranch owners, it seems, are in a unique position to utilize a conservation banking system to bolster their conservation efforts, and biologically protect the future viability of the Greater Sage-grouse.
The American Prairie Reserve (APR), is a nonprofit organization based in Montana. It was created in 2004 with the goal of becoming the largest wildlife reserve in the lower forty-eight states. It currently spans 350,000 acres of deeded private and leased public land. The APR intends to eventually acquire and manage a further 500,000 private acres which, when joined with existing public lands, will total approximately 3.5 million acres of unfragmented prairie grassland. The APR’s current holdings overlap with designated core Greater Sage-grouse habitat, and the creation of an unfractured prairie landscape aligns perfectly with APR’s other conservation efforts. The reserve and its neighboring ranch owners, it seems, are in a unique position to utilize a conservation banking system to bolster their conservation efforts, and biologically protect the future viability of the Greater Sage-grouse.
Learn more about APR
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Video by National Geographic and APR