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"The Great Plains: Bringing Back an ‘American Serengeti’"

"Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife."

"Some people call the Great Plains “flyover country.” Outdoor enthusiasts sail above it on the way to the mountains of Acadia, California’s redwoods or Utah’s red rock. Conservationists, too, have bypassed the region. Few big public preserves or parks exist there.

Ecologist Curtis Freese hopes that changes.

His new book, Back From the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife, is a call to protect and restore the northern Great Plains and the biodiversity it once held in great numbers. That includes swift foxes, beavers, river otters, bison, elk, pronghorn, black-footed ferrets, grizzly bears, wolves and numerous species of grassland birds."

Tara Lohan reports for The Revelator July 17, 2023.

SEE ALSO:

"Come Along On A Trail Run In The Wild Tallgrass Prairie Of Kansas" (NPR)

Source: The Revelator, 07/18/2023