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PRs and Updates - Northern Great Plains
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Newborns on the Northern Great Plains
Springtime on the plains brought more than just the year’s first rains and prairie grasses, as WWF’s bison reintroduction project welcomed five newborn calves (and counting) to Montana’s American Prairie Reserve. The Reserve and reintroduction are joint projects between WWF and our partner the American Prairie Foundation.
May 16, 2008 -
WWF Says Farm Bill Is Missed Opportunity, May Negatively Impact Native Grasslands
A $300 billion five-year Farm Bill that cleared Congress today contains much-welcomed environmental provisions, but also creates risk to native grasslands, leaves conservation programs under-funded and misses an opportunity to reform the government’s outdated farm subsidy system, according to World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
May 15, 2008 -
Hooves and Helicopters: Adventures in Pronghorn Collaring
On a clear northern Montana day, a joint team from WWF, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks and the University of Calgary began field work on a collaborative study of pronghorn ecology and conservation planning. The team met their goal of fitting 22 pronghorn females with GPS radio collars. The WWF team was led by Kyran Kunkel, senior fellow for the Northern Great Plains program.
January 01, 2008 -
Mixed Results from Senate Farm Bill
Washington D.C.– The 5-year Farm Bill (HR 2419) passed by the Senate by a vote of 79-14 yielded mixed results for conservation said World Wildlife Fund. Although the bill does provide support for important conservation programs, the Senate failed to pass several progressive amendments that would have greatly reduced federal subsidy payments to the wealthiest commodity producers and transferred some of the subsequent savings to increased conservation spending.
December 17, 2007 -
WWF Restores Prairie Streams
The vast semi-arid grasslands of the Northern Great Plains are laced with some of the longest stretches of free-flowing rivers in North America. These freshwater ribbons of life are habitat for species such as river otters, beavers and the endangered pallid sturgeon. Like many rivers and streams worldwide, they are challenged by dams and reservoirs, the diversion of streams for irrigation and unsustainable cattle grazing.
August 01, 2007 -
Cougar Research with Native Americans
In the plains of Montana, WWF is a partnering with the Gros Ventre, Assiniboine and Chippewa-Cree communities to learn how the restoration of cougar populations would affect the residents and economies of the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boys Indian Reservations. The Fort Belknap Reservation is home to the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes, while the Chippewa-Cree live on the Rocky Boys Reservation.
August 01, 2007 -
Forest Service Proposes Widespread Poisoning of Prairie Dogs Across South Dakota and Nebraska
CHADRON, NE – The U.S. Forest Service today released its draft plan that may drastically increase the poisoning of prairie dog colonies this fall throughout the Buffalo Gap and Fort Pierre National Grasslands in South Dakota and the Oglala National Grassland in Nebraska. Widespread poisoning could kill tens of thousands of prairie dogs, which would jeopardize the continued recovery of the critically imperiled black-footed ferret, the most endangered mammal in North America. The plan would also harm other wildlife that depend on prairie dogs for food or prairie dog burrows for shelter, including rare species such as swift foxes, burrowing owls and ferruginous hawks.
June 05, 2007 -
Year's first newborn bison arrive on the Northern Great Plains
This spring on the great American prairie brings more than the year's first rains and renewed prairie grasses. WWF recently welcomed three newborn calves to Montana's American Prairie Reserve. The two females and one male are now part of a conservation herd originally from South Dakota's Wind Cave National Park. With the arrival of these spring calves, there are now 42 bison in the American Prairie Reserve herd.
May 16, 2007 -
Government Considers Poisoning Habitat of U.S.'s Most Endangered Mammal
WASHINGTON - Almost 25 years to the day that the black-footed ferret was rediscovered, previously having been declared extinct, federal officials announced that they are considering changing rules to allow poisoning of prairie dog towns, even the ones ferrets rely upon for survival. Among the areas being considered for poisoning is the Conata Basin near Wall, South Dakota, home to the world's only successful wild population of ferrets. September 26 is the 25th anniversary of the rediscovery of the ferrets.
September 19, 2006 -
A Mother's Day Gift to Mother Earth: Baby Bison Born on the Prairie
WASHINGTON - Just in time for Mother's Day, five wild baby bison have been born on the plains of eastern Montana. The bison are part of a wild herd that live on a new prairie wildlife preserve and are the first bison to be born on this part of the Great Plains, the heart of their historic range, in 120 years.
May 11, 2006 -
Bison Released on Montana Plains - New Prairie Wildlife Reserve is Home to Conservation Herd of Bison
American Prairie Foundation (APF), a Montana-based private land trust, working in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund, today released 16 bison on a portion of 32,000 acres of prairie it owns and leases south of Malta, Montana.
November 17, 2005
