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The situation

What’s happening to American Prairie

The largest prairie conservation project in the country is under direct assault. Interior Secretary Burgum personally assumed jurisdiction and ordered BLM to revoke four bison grazing leases covering seven allotments on 63,000 acres in Phillips County, reversing a 2022 authorization that took years to secure. His legal theory: the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act limits permits to domestic animals used for production, not conservation bison. The permits are being converted to cattle-only. Earthjustice, a coalition of more than 50 tribes, the Cheyenne River Sioux, Defenders of Wildlife, and Western Watersheds have all filed formal protests. The reversal threatens 41 bison grazing permits across six western states.

2004American Prairie founded to create largest nature reserve in the continental US
2022BLM approves bison grazing permits on seven allotments
2026Interior Secretary Burgum orders BLM to revoke bison permitsMontana Free Press · January 16, 2026
2026Earthjustice, 50+ tribes, and Defenders of Wildlife file formal protests

Political targeting of conservation organization

Source: US News · January 16, 2026

No public comment window is open on American Prairie right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

In the courts

The cases over this place

The dockets we track that name American Prairie directly. Active first.

ActiveAmerican Prairie Foundation v. United States Department of InteriorMTD · filed 2026 · Docket ↗

Your move

How to stand for American Prairie

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Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around American Prairie: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

American Prairie has defenders. It needs more.

2 local groups, 2 more in the fight, American Prairie with 72 staff + 34 volunteers, 1 live case in federal court. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

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Sources and method

The situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for American Prairie, with per-item sources. Court cases: CourtListener dockets in the MTJP litigation database (1 naming this place). Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-10-05. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.