We're thrilled to announce that American Prairie is expanding again! With the recent acquisition of 2,003 acres, our Wild Horse and White Rock units are growing, & we've increased our shared fence line with the Fort Belknap Community 2+ miles. Details 👉 bit.ly/46JYN6e
Prairie dogs are ecosystem engineers whose landscaping helps define the Great Plains. They spend 70% of their lives in subterranean burrows! For the 1st time, @NationalZoo researchers are tracking these underground underdogs as they go below the surface.
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Excellent story about the Yakama Nation in Washington state and their successful bison program:
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Travis Hall with @FieldandStream has a great look behind the scenes of the production of Ken Burns' upcoming film, "The American Buffalo" - premiering on PBS in October!
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🗞️ THE LATEST: American Prairie Opens New Land for Public Access and Hunting
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Healthy Bison, Healthy Grasslands: Reporting and celebrating several milestones reached this year. Learn more at the link!
"Bison are what we call an ecosystem engineer. They basically build habitat for other species that rely on the work that bison do for their own survival." -Senior Wildlife Restoration Manager Daniel Kinka (@DanielKinka)
Learn more: americanprairie.org/the-late…
Fantastic review for "Back from the Collapse," the new book from one of our co-founders, Curtis Freese!
lit.newcity.com/2023/08/21/s…
"We're trying, with American Prairie, to take a section of land in this state and return it back as best we can to what it was 200 years ago." -Mark Azure
Learn more: americanprairie.org/the-late…
ICYMI: American Prairie was featured on 60 Minutes! View both video segments and learn more about our restoration and rewilding efforts
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ICYMI: 60 Minutes’ special report on American Prairie (originally released in October) is airing again tonight!
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Great interview with one of our founders, Curtis Freese - his new book, "Back from the Collapse" is well worth a read!
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Last week, Mike Quist Kautz (Dir., Public Access & Rec) and Scott Heidebrink (Dir., Bison Restoration) sat down with Hal Herring from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers to record episode #158 of the Podcast and Blast. Visit the link below to listen!
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@KrisTompkins_ The honor was ours! 👏🏻
I was so honored to be in NYC last week to accept the 2023 Ken Burns American Heritage Prize; incredible to share the stage with the great @KenBurns and George Matelich of @AmericanPrairie, who presented the award. I am hugely grateful -the work continues via @TompkinsRewild !
From Entrepreneur magazine's coverage of the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize:
Former CEO of Patagonia Kristine McDivitt Tompkins Dishes Out Blunt Advice All Aspiring Entrepreneurs Need to Hear: 'Just Freaking Decide to Do Something'
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Brilliant interview with our own @DanielKinka !
The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Dr. Daniel Kinka of American Prairie open.substack.com/pub/sammat…
Join us at the National Discovery Center in Lewistown on Tuesday, May 23rd, for our second Prairie Lecture! Our very own wildlife ecologist Daniel Kinka, Ph.D. (@DanielKinka), will present “Endangered, Absent, Irrelevant,” and be available after the talk for Q & A.
Today we celebrate World Rewilding Day! Learn more about rewilding and restoration projects underway right now all over the world, and watch messages of #RewildingHope from several partner organizations (like this one from our @DanielKinka!) online at: globalrewilding.earth