The Exhilaration of New Wilderness - on the land and in the soul

We need your help building the new “Ecological Highway” so youth become effective leaders and we establish large, landscape-level reserves on the American Great Plains.

GPRC has so far protected three major preserves on the Prairies and Plains of America: 4,600 acres (“Oglala Prairie Preserve”) adjacent to Badlands National Park in South Dakota, 12,000 acres (“Cynthia Ann Parker Wilderness”) in West Texas, and 2,000 acres (“Fort Worth Prairie Park”) of critically endangered, globally imperiled urban tallgrass prairie wilderness in Fort Worth, TX.

Now, with your help, we can expand these protected areas to ensure wildlife and ecosystems are strong enough to withstand climate change and other threats.

Now, with your help, our Plains Youth InterACTION program can expand to develop increasing numbers of youth leaders ready to solve health and environmental problems proactively.

Ecological Health: The Interdependent Health of Humans,
Animals and Ecosystems.

Great Plains Restoration Council is a founder of the Ecological Health movement.

Protecting the Earth is the most critical thing we can do. Out here on the Great Plains, our ecological devastation mirrors our social devastation. By committing to hard work and service now, people can have vital, deep, rich lives again.

Through GPRC’s prairie wilderness recovery projects, Plains Youth InterACTION program, and hands-on educational and work opportunities, we offer the world a blueprint for a sustainable, viable tenancy here on Planet Earth: Healing ourselves, communities and Earth all at the same time.

That's the story from out here in Flyover Country, the ecologically shattered American Great Plains. From our heartbroken land of grass and rivers, underneath the most beautiful sweeping sky, where millions of wild buffalo, prairie dogs and other wildlife once thrived and will do so again, from tallgrass prairie lushness to the sere yellow shortgrass plain, from the inner city to the Indian reservation and every community in between, we ask that you please JOIN US in building a new culture of caring by “Serving our Youth, Protecting our Prairie Earth.”