American Prairie Foundation Feb. 2008 Newsletter

Dear Friends of the American Prairie Reserve,

Tonight’s forecast for the American Prairie Reserve http://www.americanprairie.org is twenty-two degrees below zero and possibly much colder given the wind chill factor. However, the bison, elk, pronghorn and other prairie creatures are doing just fine as they are extraordinarily well-designed to thrive in both extreme heat and extreme cold. We human beings at APF are admittedly limiting our time outdoors this week, but our efforts to build this reserve are definitely full steam ahead. A two-minute podcast depicts the highlights of WWF Senior Fellow Kyran Kunkel’s collaboration with agency partners to net gun, radio collar and release more than twenty pronghorn in an effort to study their migration, potentially the longest in the lower 48 states. Our new bison from Wind Cave National Park will soon join our existing herd who have been patiently waiting for them to emerge from APF’s new-arrivals holding facility. We are also this month pleased to announce two new additions to APF’s National Council, Bill Lively and David Quammen, who are profiled below. So far the winter is full of activity on the Reserve and at the Foundation. Please enjoy this update, and I hope to see you on the prairie sometime soon.

Sincerely,

Sean Gerrity
APF President

Full Newsletter: http://www.americanprairie.org/eNewsletter/Feb2008.html