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American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
Conservation group opens gated road and tears down "no trespassing" signs with purchase from Texas billionaire brothers.
Ambitious conservation nonprofit American Prairie has secured its second-largest land purchase and leasing arrangement to date, buying up the 70,000-acre Anchor Ranch in Montana, which had been listed for sale for $35 million. “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to secure an important piece of ecologically and culturally significant land,” said American Prairie CEO Alison Fox in a press release. Under Montana’s big sky, where buffalo by the tens of thousands once thundered across temperate grasslands teeming with wildlife like prairie dogs and ferrets, elk and grizzly bears, a nonprofit is pushing forward with its ambitious plan to save one of the l…
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