Buffalo Dreams

A good start for the west. Too bad about the grizzlies however.

"Several factors have contributed to a movement to restore the Great Plains, an ecological phenomenon called mixed-grass prairie that stretches from southern Canada to the Sandhills of Nebraska.

'It has the most breadth, depth and diversity of fauna than anywhere on the High Plains,' said Sean Gerrity, the executive director of the American Prairie Foundation.

Birds are especially diverse, with rare grassland species like the greater sage grouse and Sprague's tippet found in abundance."