American Prairie

We want to give a big thanks to all of you for keeping this exciting project moving forward. Please come visit soon!

We hope spring is coming to you wherever you are and that news of this project, which you so generously support, will bring some satisfaction and joy to your month.

Thirty-five visiting members of The China Protected Areas Leadership Alliance Project will be our guests in May when we host them for a reserve tour.

In short, Grasslands 2010 seeks to merge the twin goals of biodiversity conservation and sustainable rural economic development in the Northern Great Plains region.

As this is our first newsletter of 2009, I have to take a moment to thank our growing group of supporters who made 2008 our best year of financial support by far since the beginning of the project in 2002. Donations to the project increased an astounding 257% over the previous year.

This is the sixth installment of the Grasslands 2010 e-newsletter. Grasslands 2010 is a joint project of the Nebraska-based Grassland Foundation and World Wildlife Fund’s Northern Great Plains , in collaboration with other partners.

Snow is upon us on the prairie and we are looking back on this year, feeling immensely thankful for all that occurred related to creating this beautiful reserve.

American Prairie Reserve will always include a strong element of human beings and their long and continuing association with this beautiful and unique landscape. In this issue we tell brief stories about just some of those people.

The Nature Conservancy is using ClimateWizard, a computer program that can show how temperatures have changed over the past 100 years and how they’re likely to change in the future. It is also updating its strategies to preserve ecosystems in the face of development, agricultural runoff, roads and overfishing.

Check out the Sights and Sounds link on the APF website which features faster loading video and audio clips. We have a great deal of visitation underway this fall, including people entering the area by boat on the beautiful Missouri River. We hope to see you there soon.