Pete Geddes on the American Prairie Reserve

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🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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When Lewis and Clark crossed through Montana, they encountered an extraordinary cornucopia of wildlife. Most of that ecosystem and the animals that once thrived there are gone. But a non-profit wants to bring it all back. Pete Geddes, Managing Director of the American Prairie Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about creating the Serengeti of the Americas--a 3.3 million acre prairie that would allow bison, pronghorn antelope, prairie dogs and their friends to inhabit a Wildlife Reserve in Montana, the size of Connecticut. Geddes discusses the goals of the American Prairie Reserve and how they're using a for-profit company, Wild Sky Beef, to gather support and help from local ranchers for the project.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.7	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.7	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.8	going back to 2006.
0:28.2	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.7	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.4	Today is September 17th, 2015, and my guest is Pete Gettis.
0:39.4	Pete is a managing director of the American Prairie Reserve.
0:43.3	Pete, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:44.6	Thanks, Russ.
0:45.6	A pleasure to be here.
0:47.0	Now, I mentioned the American Prairie Reserve earlier this year in the episode with
0:50.5	Summer Brennan, when I was talking about national parks and wilderness, and it's a very
0:55.9	different model.
0:57.3	What's the best way to tell us about it?
0:59.3	It is a very different model.
1:00.4	What we're trying to do in Northeastern Montana in one of the last four places of the
1:05.7	world where temper grass lands still exist in an intact state, meaning they haven't been
1:10.7	plowed up and converted into agricultural crops, and there's still a lot of it.
1:15.8	There are big landscapes.
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