When my father was born in 1899, the world population was one billion. At that time, wilderness still thrived all over the planet. The Amazon rainforest was intact. The Colorado River flowed into the Sea of Cortez. The Aral Sea covered 68,000 square kilometers (it's now one tenth the size). And so on, and so on. There are too many people on the planet. It's all very well to create the American Prairie Project. Kudos to them. But it does not address the real problem. I was born in 1954 (pop. 2.7 billion). I have seen vast acreage of prime farm land paved over. I have seen vast acreage of vital wildlife habitat invaded and destroyed by houses. Too many people. Don't give birth. Adopt a child in need (poor little kids).
@@sbman436 just get people out of state and rich parts of your state to fund it, that’s what APR is mostly funded for in Montana. Though from what I’ve been researching, this project in Montana does hurt a lot of people who live in Northern Montana, it’s based mainly on farmers and ranchers and townsfolk, and not a lot of them are in support of the APR, it’s more or less getting rid of a large portion of America’s food makers. There’s a lot not talked about that isn’t quite nice, but that’s why I found that doing this research is a good idea
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.
Here is a good article to learn more about that and some different approaches to conservation in the area. It's a worthwhile read. I came upon it when I was deciding whether to make a donation to the Nature Conservancy or the American Prairie Reserve. I ended up deciding on the APR because I am inspired by the ambition of their vision, but I appreciate the work that both organizations are doing and think that at the end of the day most everyone is on the same team, with the local farmers and ranchers being especially important to the future of the region. bitterrootmag.com/2020/02/21/montanas-grand-prairie-experiment/
It's a private project funded by private money. They are only working with willing participants. Willing participants can still ranch. The organization helps them do it in a more eco-friendly way.
Many ranchers in the area are against it because alot of the land was purchased from run down cattle ranches, some are worried about thier cattle catching diseases from bison and then there's few who learned to enjoy it while at the same time raising thier cattle next to their prarrie neighbor
Why don’t you guys do a rewinding project? Not just with American animals but also reintroduce animals that once roamed these lands as well, reintroduce animals such as elephants, horses, camels, lions, cheetahs and more, yes these animals aren’t the same as those that were here 12,000 years ago but are similar enough to fill there places, and 12,000 years is just a tick of the clock in geological time
Thats abit too wild for this After all some species have evolved to be better off surviving without any horses,camels or probocidians It's better off just keeping species from the holocene rather than trying to recreate the pleistocene ecosystem Some of the modern relatives of extinct megafuana might actually do more harm than good in some areas. I am also aware of pleistocene park in siberia but I don't think it's needed in the great plains
@@Wildman-lc3ur by doing that people would be filling in holes that have been missing for a very long time, most of America’s ecosystems are incomplete like the Great Plains, like the pronghorn who doesn’t really have any natural predators as adults, or bison who as adults don’t really have any predators other then packs of wolves
If you really want to preserve it, return the land back to the Northern Great Plains Tribes of Montana. They knew how to take care of the land since time began, before the mass genocidal colonizers came here.
We need NatGeo to make a TV series on this! I could watch this type of thing for hours at a time.
Totally agree, Jon...!👍😉
If you liked this, watch the video that Tom Selleck narrated like 20 years ago when it was just getting started.
Great work. Keep it up!
I love prairies. Sitting there watching finw sunset is on my bucketlist😍😍
Well done about an amazing project. -ANRT
I REALLY hope this will become a reality!
As a New Zealander it is so nice to see and hear about such an inspirational project from America.
theres tons of stuff like this going on in america
Great video, love the mission. Hot tip: add your website URL to the description so ppl can learn more / donate, etc. Keep up the good work!
When my father was born in 1899, the world population was one billion. At that time, wilderness still thrived all over the planet. The Amazon rainforest was intact. The Colorado River flowed into the Sea of Cortez. The Aral Sea covered 68,000 square kilometers (it's now one tenth the size). And so on, and so on. There are too many people on the planet. It's all very well to create the American Prairie Project. Kudos to them. But it does not address the real problem. I was born in 1954 (pop. 2.7 billion). I have seen vast acreage of prime farm land paved over. I have seen vast acreage of vital wildlife habitat invaded and destroyed by houses. Too many people. Don't give birth. Adopt a child in need (poor little kids).
Keep up the awesome work!
I want to push for a large continuous wilderness area in Eastern Colorado but I don't know where to start. The prairie is grossly underrated
Reach out to the National Prairie Reserve and see how they got started. ..there’s got to be a way..Do it!!
@@Alexander-rq9he I wish! I'm a poor person haha but it might be worth researching
@@sbman436 just get people out of state and rich parts of your state to fund it, that’s what APR is mostly funded for in Montana. Though from what I’ve been researching, this project in Montana does hurt a lot of people who live in Northern Montana, it’s based mainly on farmers and ranchers and townsfolk, and not a lot of them are in support of the APR, it’s more or less getting rid of a large portion of America’s food makers. There’s a lot not talked about that isn’t quite nice, but that’s why I found that doing this research is a good idea
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.
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How much to name a bison
How will this affect local farmers and ranchers?
How do local farmers and ranchers affect the native prairie?
How did local farmers and ranchers affect what was there before them?
Here is a good article to learn more about that and some different approaches to conservation in the area. It's a worthwhile read. I came upon it when I was deciding whether to make a donation to the Nature Conservancy or the American Prairie Reserve. I ended up deciding on the APR because I am inspired by the ambition of their vision, but I appreciate the work that both organizations are doing and think that at the end of the day most everyone is on the same team, with the local farmers and ranchers being especially important to the future of the region.
bitterrootmag.com/2020/02/21/montanas-grand-prairie-experiment/
It's a private project funded by private money. They are only working with willing participants. Willing participants can still ranch. The organization helps them do it in a more eco-friendly way.
Many ranchers in the area are against it because alot of the land was purchased from run down cattle ranches, some are worried about thier cattle catching diseases from bison and then there's few who learned to enjoy it while at the same time raising thier cattle next to their prarrie neighbor
APR is the best! See you this summer!
Why don’t you guys do a rewinding project? Not just with American animals but also reintroduce animals that once roamed these lands as well, reintroduce animals such as elephants, horses, camels, lions, cheetahs and more, yes these animals aren’t the same as those that were here 12,000 years ago but are similar enough to fill there places, and 12,000 years is just a tick of the clock in geological time
Thats abit too wild for this
After all some species have evolved to be better off surviving without any horses,camels or probocidians
It's better off just keeping species from the holocene rather than trying to recreate the pleistocene ecosystem
Some of the modern relatives of extinct megafuana might actually do more harm than good in some areas. I am also aware of pleistocene park in siberia but I don't think it's needed in the great plains
@@Wildman-lc3ur by doing that people would be filling in holes that have been missing for a very long time, most of America’s ecosystems are incomplete like the Great Plains, like the pronghorn who doesn’t really have any natural predators as adults, or bison who as adults don’t really have any predators other then packs of wolves
If you really want to preserve it, return the land back to the Northern Great Plains Tribes of Montana. They knew how to take care of the land since time began, before the mass genocidal colonizers came here.
That knowledge is lost..they’ll just build casinos…bad idea!
Well give back the place you live to them too if you think that is such a great idea.