Nature is a continual source of knowledge, joy, and renewal. Let the content below transport you to the prairie from wherever you are.
Virtual Backgrounds
Use an image of American Prairie as a virtual background in your next video conference! Use the instructions provided by your preferred platform to update your background,* and then be sure to let your friends and co-workers know about American Prairie when they ask “Where in the world are you?” Click images to download.
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Bison Herd
Photo by Dennis Lingohr
Landscape
Photo by Gib Myers
Landscape
Photo by Gib Myers
Landscape
Photo by Gib Myers
Birds in Water
Photo by Dennis Lingohr
Landscape
Photo by Gib Myers
Box Elder Crossing
Photo by Dennis Lingohr
Pronghorn Herd
Photo by Dennis Lingohr
Prairie Sounds
Experience a chorus of wildlife calls, including meadowlark, bison, prairie dogs, and more. Many of these audio recordings were created on American Prairie and are shared here courtesy of the Montana State University Library Acoustic Atlas.
Videos
Enjoy the prairie through some of our favorite videos, which were produced by American Prairie and our partners.
Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants
Camera Trapping at American Prairie Reserve
American Prairie Reserve: Tracking Curlews
This is American Prairie
Pronghorn: Experts in Speed and Sight
Once Around the Sun on American Prairie
Spring Greater Sage Grouse Lek
The Grouse Dance of American Prairie Reserve
The Wild Skies of American Prairie
Podcasts
A curated collection of podcasts for your listening pleasure.
November 7, 2024
Public Access & Conservation with American Prairie
July 2, 2024
Restoring wildlife on the American prairie
April 15, 2024
State of Montana – Episode 17
June 21, 2023
BHA Podcast & Blast – Episode 158
May 16, 2023
Rewilding the Great Plains of America with Alison Fox
January 23, 2023
MeatEater – Episode 148
January 23, 2023
Threshold – Season 1
January 23, 2023
Threshold – Episode 6
January 23, 2023
Into the Woods with Scott Carrier
January 23, 2023
The Joe Rogan Experience – Episode 942
Books
A curated collection of books for your reading pleasure.
Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
Yellow Wolf: His Own Story
Richard Manning
Rewilding the West – Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
Glenn Plumb and Keith Aune
Theodore Roosevelt and Bison Restoration on the Great Plains
W. W. Norton & Company
The Nature Fix – Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Jim Robbins
The Wonder of Birds – What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
David McCullough
The American Spirit – Who We Are and What We Stand For
Candace Savage
Prairie – A Natural History
Willa Cather
My Antonia
Sarah Carter
Montana Women Homesteaders
H. Duane Hampton
Life and Death at the Mouth of the Musselshell
Ivan Doig
Last Bus to Wisdom
Ian Frazier
Great Plains
John Stephenson-Love
Going to Highwood
Ben Goldfarb
Eager – The Secret Lives of Beavers and Why They Matter
Robin Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass
Linda Lawrence Hunt
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Dan Flores
American Serengeti – The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Steven Rinella
American Buffalo – In Search of a Lost Icon
Mary Cleaman Blew
All But The Waltz
Bernard DeVoto
Across The Wide Missouri