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American Prairie Reserve
The American Prairie Reserve (APR) is an independent non-profit organization that has privately undertaken a project in northeastern Montana to create a wildlife conservation area of over three million contiguous acres through a combination of both private and public lands. APR’s goal is to acquire and manage approximately 500,000 private acres, which will serve to “glue together roughly three million acres of existing public land”[National Geographic has compared the project to the creation of an American Serengeti in a DVD it created about this region in 2010 (“American Serengeti”). In a global assessment prepared for the Temperate Grasslands Conservation Initiative (TGCI), scientists identified the area of APR in northeastern Montana as one of only four remaining areas in the world that are viable options for landscape-scale grasslands conservation.〔Bob Peart, ''Life in a Working Landscape: Towards a Conservation Strategy for the World’s Temperate Grasslands”, World Temperate Grasslands Conservation Initiative Workshop report, p3, 2008-06-28 – pdf ()〕 To promote tourism and encourage donations, APR has opened a high-end safari lodge and it continues to operate low-cost campgrounds, recruit volunteers and acquire land. ]
==History of APR==
In 1999, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) published (“Ecoregional Planning in the Northern Great Plains Steppe”)〔"Ecoregional Planning in the Northern Great Plains Steppe - Ecoregional Assessment Status Tool (EAST)", The Nature Conservancy, 1999 - pdf ()〕 and determined that the Northern Great Plains were the most viable for restoring the region’s habitats and conserving existing diversity of plants and animals. Soon after this report was published, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) decided to begin a conservation effort in this area in Montana identified by TNC. At the same time, the Northern Plains Conservation Network (a network of local and national organizations) also supported a conservation program in this region, including the development of a prairie reserve. To accomplish the goals of each of these organizations, APR was formed as an independent organization in June 2001. APR was charged with the responsibility of acquiring land and managing the reserve following scientific conservation principles.
The area of American Prairie Reserve is ideal for conservation because:
*Approximately 95% of the area has never been plowed.
*The area’s population is declining at a rate of about 10% per decade, providing greater land acquisition opportunities.
*There is already a tremendous amount of public land in the area, including Bureau of Land Management tracts and 1.1 million acres of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.〔" American Prairie Reserve: 2013 Fall Gathering", American Prairie Reserve, p4-5, 2013〕
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