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=== Our Mission ===
To create the largest nature reserve in the contiguous United States, a spectacular refuge for people and wildlife preserved forever as part of America's heritage
=== The Big Picture ===
By purchasing a relatively small number of acres from willing sellers in northeastern Montana, we hope to link together three million of acres of public land already set aside for wildlife and visitor access in the region, creating a seamless landscape reminiscent of that seen by Lewis and Clark. American Prairie Reserve lands provide valuable habitat for regional wildlife, open corridors for migratory species like the pronghorn antelope and offer the public access to one of the planet's most unique environments.
Learn more: www.americanprairie.org
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Pronghorns are AMAZING runners. I've seen a large clusters of them run across mountainous terrain strewn with rocks. For a human to run there, it would be slow because for each step one must gage whether to step on a rock, a cluster of rocks, bare ground, a divot, etc. And then, the runner must precisely place each step as planned. This level of attention was irrelevant for the pronghorns. They motored along this terrain at 30+ MPH. Even more amazing than their speed was how SMOOTH and effortless it was. Their body glided above the surface, with virtually no up/down component in their movement. Their motion was so smooth, you'd swear they had run across a manicured lawn
Only the left-channel has audio.
Excellent explanation.
Keep going!
Should be done from coast to coast. From the midwest to the mid-south, from the Rockies to the arid southwest. Can’t be just here, where there’s large tracts, and in Illinois, where I’m at, 500 acres of continuous habitat is large! Get-it before it’s all gone.
Thank you all at American Prairie for saving this biodiversity for us all and for my children and our greater community! I intend to support your efforts through financial means and by telling your story!
Very nice work on the beaver dam analogues....please keep them coming! With the huge acreage AP has it's hopeful that someday we'll actually actually get to see what a beaver created water cycle actually looks like on a large scale. Repaired and functioning riparian areas, large scale aquifer infiltration, control of flood events, and return of natural springs are only a few thousand dams away ;) !!
Thank you. I live on a flood plain in Illinois. I love watching the beavers, muskrats and groundhogs doing their engineering work.
Thank you for your work that allows this to occur.
Exciting... The Vision is bearing fruit... ( pardon the pun )
Thank you for this lovely moment of contemplation and beauty and hope... and of our deep history. Also American Prairie Preserve is so much needed to save our biodiverse ecosystem!
Love to see the return of wild prairie
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It's important to note that this prairie is of the Shortgrass ecotype, and no doubt a huge right step in saving for future generations this unique biome. Hopefully, gains will be made to preserve the most endangered ecosystem in the world, the Tallgrass Prairie ecotype.
Beautiful! Thank you for starting this project and for sharing your vision.
Thanks for posting this. Keep up the good work out there.
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Is it legal to hunt them ?
ps: Texas would be the "Southern" extent of the Prong Horn. Canada is the "Northern" extant.
Nov 10, 2023. If Central Asia & Africa have herds of Thousands of Antelope, then how come we only see maybe 5 Prong Horn Antelopes in North America? What the hell happened to what should be Thousands of Prong Horns in Huge herds!.. I bet Ranchers & farmers almost wiped out the entire species!
0:28 using two different models of Wildlife Acoustics bat detectors
This group is damaging food production in America. They are foreign backed. Investigate the financing. Tax them heavily enough they can't afford to operate.
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Maybe you can try to get involved and help them with this.
You so much for all your work.
OMG! Curt did such a wonderful job explaining the history and where we are now and the potential for the future I thoroughly enjoyed the whole presentation so well done kudos to everybody involved I can't wait to visit it one day 😊
American Praire certainly inspires this person from New Zealand. Great work, great vision.
Delia Touche makes the statement that white hide hunters destroyed the bison as part of a plan to force the Indians onto reservations. However the author and historian Dan Flores refutes these charges denying there is no evidence of any such policy. In fact many Indians were also involved in the hide trade exchanging hides for white goods and fire water.
I have just finished the game Red Dead Redemption 2 which is set in Wild West America, so seeing that there is an environment that's very similar to that setting and it's a place that I can visit in the foreseeable future gets me excited. I pray that when I get there soon, it looks as beautiful or even more beautiful than what's shown in this video
I hear that ranchers are very concerned about their way of life. However in 2023 we are in the sixth extinction caused by industrialization that is blind to planning and has caused loss of habitat and threatens one million species in upcoming decades. Environmental leaders like E O Wilson of Harvard fear that this sixth extinction is accurate. We need private and government environmental action to save habitat in this world where capitalists will not and in a world that is filled with 10 billion humans- the most invasive species. Thank you American Prairie. Also I value that we help people displaced by environmental activism and we have the money and resources to do so but at present our government has chosen not to plan well and so endless tax cuts to the wealthy deplete our coffers.
Why did you throw a fellow YT’er out of your office in Lewistown? He was there to ask questions about your project and all of your employees were very dodgy and evasive. What are you hiding?
I wud call them a perfect-heartshape ass'd antelope
It is a truly remarkable task. May God be with you!
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A beautiful place worth visiting. You are welcome
You’re doing great work over there
Love the work and the presentation! Just wish we could see the screen and all the slides. But great work with Swift fox reintroduction ❤
Agreed!
Hi I'm a Habitat manager in south east Iowa. I've started an obsession with bats and I'm curious what your results have shown? I'm very curious if bats help pollinate our prairie and early sucessional habitats or what relationship bats and the prairie have? I've been working with oak savannas and I see that biome has been beneficial due to having the larger oaks for bats too roost in, but that's about it. Hope to hear from you and take care!
This background music is so loud and so annoying!
Qué maravilla!!! Gracias Maestro
I would love to see more folks from the tribes. To hear more from folks from the tribes.
Noticing that this was posted eight days ago as I write this comment. And 168 views. I worked for the Bureau of Land Management for nearly fifteen years. At some point I learned about American Prairie and have been a supporter ever since. Only partially into the presentation, but thinking that it will be about ecosystem management. Excited to continue watching the presentation.
Great speech! I can’t wait to see the dream come true with American prairie. Hopefully all the land will be acquired in my lifetime.
Watching this from Spain. Wonderful work and congrats to ALL!
These are disgusting people and not one native Montanan that I know appreciates what the globalist communist American prairie reserve are doing...they should be imprisoned for what they are doing to Montana.
I love this ❤ ❤
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If only the Tallgrass prairie ecosystem was being saved in the Midwest...
If only we could get this for the Tallgrass prairie ecosystem that is critically endangered.
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Are you buying this land from the U.S. Federal govt. Who are you buying this land from? If this land you're now buying would've still been occupied by the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota , the Oceti Shakowin , Peoples of the Seven Council Tribes ( you know as Sioux) , you would not be buying any land reserves in order to preserve this land and wildlife that once flourished now dying, this land would be flourishing and thriving and hence no need for buying land, preserving wildlife, and no need for this video. We have been called and labeled hostile savages, but history shows that the washichu /whiteman arre the savages that have destroyed the lands of this nation and are the reason many of the prairies wildlife mainly Buffalo were exterminated to near extinction. This was our land before it was taken from us. We were the caretakers of this land for decades ,and hundreds of years before you came to exploit and conquer this land , and commit genocide and crimes of humanity by slaughtering our people which to date no one has answered for! I brought this all up to make my point . Preserving our prairies for you is a step in the right direction.