Jun 10, 2008 -
Back to Nature and Ready for Guests in the Great Plains
Dan Koeck for The New York Times
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/travel/08journeys.html?th&emc=th
By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK
Published: June 8, 2008
OVER the past decade, as human populations on the Great Plains have thinned, many conservationists have seen an opportunity unparalleled since the frontier days of the 19th century brought towns to the region.
Outdoors people, big landowners, travel operators and conservationists are now returning much of the Great Plains to its wild state, to a kind of American steppe. Conservationists are reviving native fauna and flora, and wolf populations are returning to the Yellowstone area.
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