Land Thieves | The Wallstreet Robbers called American Prairie Foundation
Save the Montanan Cowboy – Stop the American Prairie Foundation
The APF represents a mortal danger to the future heart and soul of the Cowboy in Montana. By buying up Montanan millions of acres of lands under the guise of “conservation” and putting them into private portfolios, these out-of-state robber barons will be free to exploit our land however they want. When have these sorts ever answered for their bait-and-switch maneuvers before? Never. These people will not stop until they are stopped by you, your community, and your government.
What is the American Prairie Foundation?
Formerly known as the American Prairie Reserve, the American Prairie Foundation (APF) was founded in 2004 under the guise of wildland conservation. The PR managers of this organization claim they are buying up Montana land to preserve its natural state and are generously allowing the public to camp and fish and hike in it – so long as their private board chooses to allow Montanans onto their own land.
Of course anyone would expect that an organization financed in the millions of dollars would choose talking points primed for appealing to the Montana public. But the better question is, who are behind this organization? Why is this organization so obsessed with Montana? And what does their “expertise” appear to intend for this land?
The APF says it is a “conservation group” that intends to own/control over 3.2 MILLION ACRES OF LAND. For perspective, that is more land than all the size of Connecticut. Their claim to this land comes in the name of re-introducing buffalo, wolves and grizzly bears onto the plains – and in so doing eradicate cows, ranch families, and farmers from the lands that have been theirs since Montana was a frontier territory.
Most of this land that they want to put into their pockets is around the beautiful Upper Missouri River Breaks area. They are buying as much land bordering BLM, Federal land, and state land as possible in order to effectively control the land/water use permits on those lands which have traditionally been granted to farmers. Such control could easily be used to starve out surrounding landholders of vital access to natural resources and valuable territory.
As of this writing, APF currently has acquired 126,000 acres of Private Land which has given them control over the grazing/water rights/permits of over 336,702 acres of attached public lands. In real estate terms, controlling both sides of a major river is worth more than gold in terms of future real estate development potential. But we can trust these profiteering out-of-staters not to exploit and develop that land… right?
Who are behind APF?
On the surface, APF would have the average Montanan believe they are simply a plucky conservationist group full of the sorts of lifelong ecologists, hikers, and artists who just want to save the buffalo and prairie dogs and elk. It’s an appealing image, and one they have carefully crafted for public consumption.
But if you look into some of who the Directors and Board Members of APF are, the ones actually controlling and financing this operation, you’ll see that most of them are Wallstreet Bankers, International Corporation CEO’s, and Silicone Valley billionaires. And an inordinate number of them are Jewish, a race so well known for their disinterest in nature that it is a long-standing joke. Why would people like this be suddenly interested in buying up state-sized swaths of wildlands? What follows is a short survey of some of the prominent membership:
Lets start with David A. Coulter. Coulter is a former CEO of super banks like Bank of America and Goldman Sachs and is currently a special limited partner in multi-billion dollar financial firm Warburg Pincus. Warburg Pincus traces its roots to E.M. Warburg & Co., an investment banking and private investment consulting firm, founded in New York in 1939 by Eric Warburg. The Warburg family was instrumental in forming the privately-held Federal Reserve that now manipulates our money and economy. The Warburgs helped orchestrate the communist Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which resulted in the slaughter of millions of innocents. The Warburgs are also related through marriage to Jacob Schiff and the Rothchilds. David Coulter, as well as the Warburgs, Schiffs and Rothchilds, are all Jewish.
Next up is Jaqueline Badger Mars. Mars is the retired VP of the international corporation Mars Inc., an American multinational manufacturer of confectioneries, pet food, and other food products and animal care services with $45 billion in annual sales in 2022. Mars, Inc. was ranked as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States by Forbes. Jaqueline Mars is part the Jewish Mars family, the third richest family on paper in America.
Here we have Alan Airth, a Real Estate mogul that resides in Orange County California. He is listed on a news article as being one of the most wealthy residents in Orange County California. In Orange County he has deep ties to the commercial real estate development industry. He sits on the board of directors of Mars Inc and is related to Jaqueline Mars further by marriage to her daughter, Alexandra. It really makes you wonder why a real estate mogul with deep connections to one of the richest families in America has such an interest in prime Montana real estate abundant with natural resources such as gas, oil, and riverfront.
George E. Matelich, another Wallstreet creature who is the managing director of multi-billion dollar private equity firm Kelso & Co., an enterprise with more than 100 companies within its portfolio, including an oil exploration company operating currently in the Gulf of Mexico, another that drills for natural gas in Pennsylvania, and others focused in similar resource extraction industries. He is a former Lehman Brothers insider. Lehman brothers is infamous for ruining the savings of thousands of hard working Americans during the 2008 financial crisis. The fact that this wealthy man from California with ties to Wallstreet and with controlling interests in so many resource exploitation industries is taking such an interest in rural Montana is very peculiar.
Danny O'Shaughnessy is a Vice President of Goldman Sachs, a TRILLION dollar financial firm that had $2.5 trillion dollars in assets under management in 2021. Goldman Sachs was fined $2.9 billion dollars for bribery in 2020 – a small price to pay for political control and a fine that almost matches the entire State of Montana’s annual budget.
Jeffrey Talpins is another billionaire Jew out of New York city with an estimated net worth of $3 billion dollars. Jeffrey Talpins runs Element Capital Management, a hedge fund that specializes in macro trading with a reported $12 billion under management. As of March 2024, Element capitals largest holding in their portfolio is Matador Resources Co, a company in the oil and gas industry.
Keith Anderson, is a Wallstreet co-founder of the worlds richest financial firm Blackrock. Blackrock has a mind-blowing $9 trillion dollars of assets under management. Blackrock is known for buying up thousands of single family homes via its affiliated firm Blackstone, which is straining housing inventory by outbidding many first time home buyers. Blackrock alone is responsible for much of the housing crisis stopping normal families from potentially ever buying a home. Anderson is the Vice Chairman of Blackrock currently. He is also the former Chief Investment officer for George Soros fund management. George Soros is well known for bankrolling far-Left disruptions disguised as social movements all over the world.
What APF means for Montana
All mentioned above are on the National Board of Directors for APF. Their positions and labels in the APF organization don’t matter at all. Who do you think calls the shots? A mercenary woman fresh out of the University and a gaggle of wildlife enthusiasts, or quite literally some of the richest people in the entire world? The frontmen are there just to give a Montanan-flavor to the poison apple the APF offers.
Are all these lands and properties they are acquiring coming with mineral rights? Does the APF have other plans in mind besides “conservation” with all that real-estate development experience and dollars behind them? There are no laws and therefore no inputs from actual Montanans on how the APF utilize their privately-acquired land, and their facade of graciously allowing campers to “enjoy nature” can be rescinded in a moment by the stroke of a Wallstreet banker’s hand.
And it is not being done alone. These fat cats are working with the Bureau of Land Management to change grazing/land use policy in order to steal away grazing permits and land use rights from ranchers. Their intended outcome is to economically starve out farmers who refuse to be bought out. Keep in mind there are many Montanan farmers and ranchers standing in the way of APF’s stated goal of owning/controlling 3.2 millions acres of riverfront property, a Connecticut’s worth of Montana soil.
What matters is not the titles, but who has the most money to fund this organization. And none of their enterprises, and none of their histories, point to those who care about wildlife or the native inhabitants of the state of Montana like Montanans do. These people have plans to deracinate Montana farmers, ranchers, and townsmen in favor of coastal-elite forms of resource acquisition and exploitation – for personal profit - and they are accomplishing those plans as we speak. It is the very definition of robber-barony and carpet-bagging.
The APF represents a mortal danger to the future heart and soul of the Cowboy in Montana and to all Montanans. “SAVE THE COWBOY - STOP AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION” is not hyperbole. It’s real, it is happening right now, and good Montanans everywhere must do something to stop them.
What Montanans can do
To save the Montanan cowboy and protect the sovereignty of every Montanan, you and everyone you know must work together to protect the lands our ancestors won and built into the Treasure State. Despite how imposing these out-of-state interests are, they cannot overcome the will or tenacity of the awakened Montanan in defense of his own soil.
These are some of the actions you can take to bury the APF out on the lonely prairie once and for all:
Don’t do business with realtors that work with the APF. Inform everyone you know which realtors are turning traitor to their neighbors and state until they amend their behavior.
Call out the APF’s hired underlings that they send to community meetings and run them out of town. Community meetings are for Montanans, not traitors and flunkies. Anyone on the APF payroll is assisting them in stealing our lands, whether they believe so or not.
Boycott businesses that work with the APF. From the real estate agencies facilitating their trades right down to the humble grocery store, make them know these people are stealing our land and have forfeited their right to Montanan hospitality.
Retain your familial lands. Don’t sell your ancestral soil. Your forebearers who raised you up on those fields and fought for your future don’t deserve their blood and sacrifice to be squandered for quick buck. If you have no heirs, bequeath the land to a deserving Montanan who will safeguard our soil for our people.
Demand your government oust these greedy carpet-baggers back to the New York and Californian swamps they crawled out of, and push for this conservation project to be put into the hands of actual Montanans. Reject these promises of easy money and mindless conservation, and instead call upon your communities to raise up real local stewardship and protection of our natural resources the right way - the local way.
Money cannot buy the things that makes Montana the Last Best Place. Our blood, sweat, and tears have sanctified these soils for our people, and upon these soils we have raised our families, built our communities, established our state, and praised our God. No money in the world can buy that again once it has been traded away.
If you are a resident of beautiful Lewistown, the surrounding communities, or just travelling through, share this information when you drive by American Prairie Foundation’s massive building they bought in downtown Lewistown. Name them, and show them what Montanans think of land thieves.
Follow-Up:
After a very successful distribution of flyers in September 2024 informing the people of Lewistown of the robber-barons in their midst, a most curious thing happened: The American Prairie Foundation removed their entire Leadership page from their website. Even the archives.
Why would this company be embarrassed about their leadership structure being available for everyone to see? Did they think that they should hide their financial-investors and profiteers from the public eye? It sure seems so!
Luckily however, the tax-man sees all, and generously provides us all most of the list helpfully on their tax returns. Feel free to research further into their leadership structure in these publicly-available documents and see for yourselves how deep in the pockets of Wallstreet these out-of-state land-grabbers really are.
And while you’re at it, learn more about how the American Prairie Foundation is wearing wildland conservation as a thin skinsuit to bamboozle well-meaning Montanans into supporting the theft of their own lands in this excellent post from Protect the Harvest.
Excuse me ☝️ wtf is wrong with u fools? U throw a plastic baggie with a ‘Wanted’ flyer for APR members on it with bird seed in it on my front lawn? Talking shit about APR’s conservation efforts being a ploy for robbing ranching lands. How dare u. Maybe u want to keep the land to ’preserve’ it like your ancestors did. Quite frankly I don’t think your ancestors get that honor. You also want to be successful and have economic gains, but you only portray your ancestral preservation as your argument against APR. From a non generational farmer, who would love to be one, even before APR, there is no way I would have found a successful in. It’s hard be a farmer, it’s harder to become one. From a white women, technically your and my ancestors way of preserving isn’t the only way and technically it was not our ancestors land to begin with. Furthermore, if you’re going to throw trash on our streets, I’d assume your way of preserving the land needs to be reassessed. You view APR’s initiatives as robbing, but the land was stolen in the first place. You are trying to hold on to a livelihood that only considers one way of persevering. Wake up, times are changing, there are environmental and economic benefits in allowing education and perseveration of these lands, especially for those who aren’t familiar with the lands. News flash, the world is diverse and people migrate. Its beneficial to ensure care is knowledge is shared. Hell, why don’t you have more farming/ranching discovery? Or sessions with APR about historical land uses/ways of life, the importance and coexistence between the domestic and wildlife? Also, there is plenty of land to still ranch and grow in, if you’re willing. Systemic financial issues of farmers don’t allow competition with ‘Wallstreet’. Sure. If your preservation is so much better, where are your investors? Maybe you need to start considering other people’s interests out weighs yours. While we’re entitled to making a living, it maybe be more beneficial to spend your efforts on partnering with a way of the future mentality, because no one is stopping or going back in time. We are heading towards the future regardless of how hard you dig ur heels in. This is no one’s land, this is everyone’s planet. We’re just visitors. Stop the division. Sharing is caring. I’d appreciate it if your association didn’t throw trash anywhere except the trash. I’m not limiting your voice, but figure out a better way to share your message that doesn’t litter plastic everywhere. Also, if you could try to have an open mind to the pros and not just the cons, that would be awesome too. Take care and be well, everyone. Life is hard. We’re all just trying to get by.