The largest private land conservation project in America recently took a huge step forward to its ultimate goal by acquiring a controversial, 22,000-acre property from recalcitrant owners.

The private ranchland blocked a 3.8-mile access road to a large National Monument in Montana, but its acquisition by the American Prairie Reserve will soon give residents in northwestern Montana and Idaho a straight shot to the Monument’s interior.

American Prairie Reserve has for years been buying and leasing land between the Charles M. Russel Nat. Wildlife Refuge and Upper Missouri Breaks Nat. Monument in Montana to create America’s largest assemblage of wild prairie for the purposes of conservation and recreation.

Stitching together grasslands, water features, ranchland, rolling hills, and woodland

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