American Prairie Acquires 70,000-Acre Montana Ranch to Restore Public Access to National Monument

Ambitious conservation nonprofit American Prairie has secured its second-largest land purchase and leasing arrangement to date

The group bought the land from two billionaire Texas brothers who'd kept the public locked out of one of the only western access roads into adjacent public land

Public lands and public access are now constantly under threat in the U.S., but there's still good news to share

The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, which totals almost 400,000 acres