American Prairie is working to create one of the largest nature reserves in the United States as a refuge for people and wildlife right here in the Great Plains of Montana. Join American Prairie staff to learn more about their mission to connect and protect this vast and vanishing prairie ecosystem on Tuesday, March 18, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm in the Cordingley Room.
Topics will include ways to visit and enjoy the prairie, community partnerships and scientific research, educational programming, and more.
American Prairie is a donor-funded nonprofit organization with the mission of conserving the temperate grassland ecosystem by connecting and restoring enough land to support the natural ecological processes. Their strategy, according to their website, is to “achieve landscape-scale results is to add to and complement existing swaths of public land that have already been set aside for conservation. We act as stewards for the prairie’s biodiversity, we foster relationships with public and private stakeholders, and we create opportunities for the public to explore the region’s splendor. The entire project (the organization, the land we own, and the 3.2-million-acre vision) is referred to as “American Prairie,” but the end result will be a multi-jurisdictional complex made up of public and private land.”
For more information, contact Jake Sorich at jsorich@greatfallslibrary.org or 406-453-0349 ex. 220.
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