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There is a vast amount of prairie information available on the web today. We've compiled a list of organizations currently working in the Great Plains, as well as links to Plains-related articles published in the last ten years. These lists are by no means exhaustive, but we hope they'll provide a good starting point for furthering your knowledge of the prairie.

RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

Bureau of Land Management - Montana and the Dakotas
http://www.mt.blm.gov/

Center for Bison Studies, Montana State University-Bozeman
http://www.montana.edu/~wwwcbs/index.html

The Conservation Fund
http://www.conservationfund.org

Montana Bird Distribution Database
http://nhp.nris.state.mt.us/mbd/

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks
http://fwp.state.mt.us/default.html

National Parks Conservation Association
http://www.npca.org

The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/wherewework/fieldguide/projectprofiles/gpm.html

Northern Plains Conservation Network
http://www.npcn.net/

Patuxent Bird Identification Info Center
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/infocenter.html

US Fish and Wildlife Services - Charles M Russell National Wildlife Refuge
http://www.r6.fws.gov/cmr/

US Fish and Wildlife Services - Bowdoin National Wilderness
http://bowdoin.fws.gov/

World Wildlife Fund - Northern Great Plains
http://worldwildlife.org/wildplaces/ngp/projects/prairie.cfm

RELATED PRAIRIE ARTICLES
*For news articles about APF specifically, please see APF In the News.

"American Bison Detailed Information" - Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks
http://fwp.state.mt.us/fieldguide/detail_AMALE01010.aspx

"Bring Back Buffalo Herds to Prevent Fires" - National Geographic feature
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0731_wirebuffalo.html

"Change of Heartland" - National Geographic Magazine
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0405/feature1/

"Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie" - Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101910204-156342,00.html

"New Home on the Range" - National Geographic Magazine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature8/index.html

"Prairie Birds in Peril: Nature Conservancy Launches Major Effort to Protect Prairie Bird Habitat" -
The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/montana/news/news620.html

"Prairie Conservation" - National Geographic Magazine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature8/zoom5.html

"Prairie Dogs Poisoned by U.S. in South Dakota" - National Geographic feature
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1026_041026_prairie_dogs.html

"Prairies" - National Geographic feature
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/habitats/prairies.html

"Restoration of Bison on to the American Prairie" - University of California-Irvine
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/global/sensem/patel97.htm

"Sage Grouse Study Brings MSU Students to Montana Prairie" - Montana State University
http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1881

"Underdogs: Prairie Dogs at Home" - National Geographic feature
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/burrow

"The Unlucky 13 Grassland Birds" - The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/magazine/summer2002/unlucky13/index.html

"The Vanishing Prairie Dog" - National Geographic Magazine April 1998 cover story
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/9804/hilights.html#g