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The American West:
Our Home On The Range

The American West: wide-open spaces, self-reliant people with freedom to roam under big skies. “Purple mountain majesties,”1 “where the buffalo roam, and the deer and the antelope play.”2

Over 300 million acres of the West are federal public lands – your lands, our lands. They cover many ecosystems, from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierras, and a huge expanse of Sagebrush Sea in between.

These western lands are home to exceptional wildlife,wild horses, pronghorn antelope, sage grouse, mountain bluebirds, redband trout and pygmy rabbits just to name a few. The soaring eagle; the massive bull moose; the elusive coyote – these and so many other wildlife represent the freedom we all crave in the West.

1 America The Beautiful, K. Bates (1893)
2 Home on the Range, J. Lomax (1910)

© 2008 Save The West.org

Featured Photograph © Matt Barney