The American Prairie Foundation is a nonprofit organization located in the U.S. state of Montana.
The foundation's objective is to build one of the largest[6] wildlife reserves in the continental United States through a combination of new land acquisition and public land integration into the project, called the American Prairie.
The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge is one of the project's anchor properties.
[8] The American Prairie Foundation developed a 7-point scale to evaluate land based on ten ecological conditions including plant diversity, grazing, fire, hydrology and predators to measure the impact of reserve management activities.
[9] Approximately ten percent of the funding comes from private foundations supporting land conservation and the remaining ninety percent comes from individuals living in 46 states and eight countries.