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Bison on the run, prairie dogs popping up, eagles soaring—this is not Dances with Wolves II but the dream scene of the AmericanPrairieFoundation. APF has one of the most inspiring and ambitious plans for restoring and preserving America’s disappearing wild open spaces.

Now five years old and with a goal of 3. 6 million preserved acres (the size of Connecticut or the Serengeti Plain) APF already manages 31,000 acres of public and private land in north-central Montana. This is empty, big sky country, a rocky place of sage and juniper and grasslands, home to sheep, golden eagles, ferrets, foxes, badgers.

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