Prairie preservation: How to protect America's grasslands
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2018
- Correspondent Barry Petersen reports on efforts to preserve an iconic but rapidly-disappearing resource of the American West - grasslands - and talks with cattle ranchers who say such land reclamation endangers their way of life.
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I'm confused by the lady who said the difference between them and the American Prairie Reserve people is that they want to stay on their land. But the Reserve is buying the land from people SELLING their ranches. Or perhaps people who defaulted on their mortgages, and the bank is selling the land. Either way they would be leaving anyway. What she is really saying is "We want the ranches sold to people like US." Everybody loves a free market, until it doesn't serve their interests. If the Reserve is the highest bidder, then too bad. Seriously, the worst thing to happen to your community is that there's a national park next door?
Same thing with Dallas suburbs being at the edge of the Prairie and they keep building and building and building and building and building mile after mile after mile after mile housing developments Apartments ,stores roads...
This isn't terrible, this is a non-profit using the free market to the land. They aren't cheating anyone and are the highest bidder. That is how capitalism works. I like this idea
YES! My wife and I own two ranches. Both are managed as a wildlife sanctuary / cattle ranch. There is NO divergence between the American Prairie Reserve and cattle ranching. NONE! Ranchers do not have to sell to the APR and no one government agency is condemning it as Public Domain.
this is such a wonderful idea - ranchers and farmers who object are clearly small minded short sighted and greedy.
I’m not sure if any humans anywhere in the World improved on Gos and Nature’s design.
Here in Eurasia we call it steppe. Prairie is prob. a French word.
Gods
The Native Americans are just scratching their heads in this one.
The land is better than it was? She’s quite crazy (seems like she’s sipping kool-aid too). Cattle have thoroughly destroyed the fragile waterways and riparian areas in my state (New Mexico) and completely disconnected waters from their floodplains by overgrazing. I’m glad ranches are being sold and restored to prairie. Cattle have really decimated the wild west!
Not to mention the miles, and miles of barbed wire that cause animals like the pronghorns to run into at high speed, injuring or even killing themselves. Or the wildlife "management" (killing) of our native species to protect livestock interests.
This is a reason why Sacramento California has those historical mass floods that swap the lands due to dying grasses, flowers, and bio diversity.
Now if we could include our Wild Horses in the Reserve, as mandated back in 1971, Wild Horse Annie law, we'd truly have a piece of the wild west.