In Amsterdam I met a man who revealed to me the hidden currents of our lives -- the massive flows of raw materials and products deployed, to such wonderful and damaging effect, by 7.7 billion humans. Our shared metabolism, you might say. It was a cri...
APR has also built new campgrounds and a hut system on its properties, donated beef and bison meat to local Native American communities and food banks, sponsored rodeo athletes, donated buffalo-hunting opportunities for local fund-raisers, and organi...
The constraint on wildlife populations is not what the habitat will support, but what humans will support, says Daniel Kinka, an APR restoration ecologist. 约束野生动物数量的不是栖息地选择什么，而是人类选择什么，美国草原...
That neighborliness, however, does not extend to APR, which bought its first property in 2004 just south of here. Twice since then, the French family has pitched in to buy ranches that APR was interested in purchasing. A neighbor wants to help you ou...
In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act, which gave settlers title to 160 acres of federal land if they were able to prove up on the property by building a house and planting crops. But 160 acres weren't enough in the short-grass prairies, so Cong...
We're winding along a ridge on one of APR's newest properties, the 46,000-acre Two Crow Ranch, which abuts the Charles M. Russell refuge on the south side of the Missouri River. I ride shotgun; Two Crow's former manager Danny Maag sits in the back. T...
Gerrity estimates the total cost to buy 500,000 acres of private land and endow it forever will be upwards of $500 million -- half the price of a professional football stadium, which has a rough shelf life of 20 to 30 years. From 2009 to 2017 alone,...
But here on the plains' western edge, where the climate is unforgiving and the boom-and-bust farming economy is equally remorseless, swaths of prairie remain largely unbroken. In 2000 a group of conservationists identified this region as critical for...
Austin oversees the herd of buffalo that graze below us, and the properties that contain them. He works for the American Prairie Reserve, a conservation organization seeking to create a massive protected area in central Montana and repopulate it with...
We bounce in the truck along a furrowed road, through a mud slick and up to a bluff that looks out to the curve of the Earth. 卡车在裂痕纵横的道路上颠簸，开过一片滑溜的泥地登上断崖，弧形的天际线尽收眼底。 The pl...
