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The Yellowstone of the Future – Montana’s American Prairie Reserve

on Montana’s northern Great Plains, American Prairie Reserve http://www.americanprairie.org/ is using this model to build our nation’s first large-scale 21st-century park. Rather than seeking government financing, we are raising private funds to purchase approximately 500,000 acres in order to link them with the area’s existing three million acres of public lands. When complete, this landscape will be roughly the size of Connecticut, privately funded, endowed and managed for the benefit of wildlife and people.

Those who use this model will identify ecosystems in need of conservation and engage private individuals or organizations that leverage public resources to carve out protected areas. The grasslands of northeast Montana are a priority for conservation because of their extraordinary biodiversity and large percentage (almost 90 percent) of intact native prairie. It is one of the few landscapes left that bears some semblance to what Lewis and Clark witnessed about 200 years ago when they passed through.

By PETE GEDDES

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/opinion/the-yellowstone-of-the-future.html?_r=0

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