American Prairie is the largest rewilding project in the US

Despite Montana's Earth haters and the Trump Organization's war on American Prairie its mission to rewild the West continues.

Greece has the Parthenon. North America had the American Serengeti—a wildlife spectacle so vast it rivaled anything on Earth.

In less than 100 years, it was destroyed. Tens of millions of bison, elk, pronghorn, wolves, and grizzlies were decimated. The Great Plains went from the heartland of biodiversity to fences and wall-to-wall cattle ranching.

But in central Montana, something extraordinary is happening.

American Prairie is building a 3.2-million-acre protected landscape by purchasing ranches and converting them from commodity production to wildlife restoration. They're bringing back bison, restoring natural grazing patterns, and letting ecosystems function the way they're meant to.

In Episode 217, Brooke sits down with Daniel Kinka, PhD, American Prairie's Director of Rewilding, to get the inside story on this historic project. They talk about:

American Prairie's strategy for landscape-scale restoration

The power of ecosystem processes (bison, prairie dogs, fire)

Why the area can’t sustain wolves can't yet—but grizzlies, yes

What this project means for climate, biodiversity, and hope

This is one of the most inspiring conservation stories happening right now.

Episode 217 - The Great Plains Comeback: Inside America's Largest Rewilding Project https://rewildology.com/.../the-great-plains-comeback.../

#AmericanPrairie #Rewildology #Podcast #Rewilding

Olson: Powers headed for cosmic comeuppance

South Dakota's Second Amendment for me but not for thee former teevee anchor Shad Olson foretells a fall for obese Earth hater Pat Powers.

Doxxing and assassination blogger Pat Powers this week makes a comical entreaty of admission to South Dakota lawmakers, expressing his predictable weepy and petulant opposition to proposed changes to the state's doxxing laws specifically aimed at making his constant online stalking, harassment and intimidation of conservative lawmakers a felony offense. As they should be.

Powers, the illiterate RINO tagteam partner of AFP-Odenbach spokes-amoeba Katie Powers, ...err, Hoffmann, has long used the constant tracking, physical address publication and invasion of prvacy of selected, and ONLY conservative legislators, as his favorite method of life disruption, in an age when leftist violence, harassment and even assassination of political opponents are a constantly articulated threat.

In July 2025, Pat Powers published the Aberdeen home address of Representative Brandei Schaefbauer just four days before the home invasion assassinations of Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses. In direct response, the South Dakota legislature quickly scrubbed lawmakers' physical location data from the state website.

In total, and counting today's inscrutable whiny additions to a record of online harassment that smacks of sexual obsession, Powers has published no fewer than eight articles that either directly mention, or contain links to previous articles publishing Brandei Schaefbauer's physical address and even the address of an AirBnB property in Lawrence County Schaefbauer purchased in August and housed under a newly formed LLC.

In 2023, Powers published Schaefbauer's private home address as part of his TMZ-style coverage of the sealed terms of her acrimonious divorce, despite the fact that Schaefbauer was at that time covered under a customary post-divorce protection order against her previous spouse. Because Pat Powers is an utter piece of reprobate shite. (In ways you don't know, but soon will.)

In today's rambling and painfully inarticulate screed justifying his need to constantly know the physical whereabouts of the conservative lawmakers Powers hopes to slander, discomfit, and smear out of office, if not out of life, Powers cloaks his egregiously invasive pattern of harassment and intimidation behind the need for "transparency," and "accountability," hilariously defending the necessity of his public doxxing habit as a matter of providing U.S. Postal Service contact information for constituents, because quote: "Not everyone has email." Right.

By giving out patriot lawmaker location data to the same woke mob tracking and assaulting ICE agents, Pat Powers is performing a vital public service, don't you know. Allowing the people who "don't have email," (but who apparently do surf the internet for obscure, badly written political blogs in South Dakota) to find address information and send physical letters to the handful of conservative South Dakota lawmakers Pat has incessantly targeted for doxxing. Right.

We never said logic was Pat's strong suit.

Beyond his comedic inability for sound pedagogy, it's rank hypocrisy from a pedestrian scandal rag curator who famously collects and traces IP addresses of his website visitors and specifically uses those IP fingerprints to block and censor future ability to comment on, or even view his articles.

You know. Because Pat Powers is such a stickler for transparency. And accountability.

Thankfully, he's about to get some of both.

No SD gubernatorial candidates have reached signature threshold

New Year's Day was the beginning of gathering signatures to appear on any ballot for South Dakota governor and so far none of the nine announced candidates have enough. 

Democratic candidates need 1,232 signatures of registered Democratic voters whether there is a primary or not; 

Libertarian candidates need 741 signatures of registered Libertarian voters whether there is a primary or not; 

Unaffiliated candidates need 3,502 signatures of registered voters of any type to get on the General Election ballot.

Earth haters need 2171 signatures from registered Earth haters for their 2 June primary.

Petitions must be filed with the Secretary of State by 31 March.

Fuck ICE

After Dad retired from the Air Force and we arrived in Elkton in 1963 Karen's family adopted us and her twin brother Kevin became one of my best friends.

This country's founders never expected the US Constitution as written to last more than ten years and most predicted it would be rewritten every generation. Thomas Jefferson wrote that a standing army would lead to military adventurism, would ultimately turn on its own citizens and that has happened. Now, we've become the Hamiltonian Empire Jefferson warned us about. False flags, disaster capitalism, endless war: anyone who believes America is safer because of a border patrol and ICE agents filled with mercenaries is delusional. 

If it were possible and the oligarchs wouldn’t hijack a Convention of States a rewrite of the Second Amendment would be at the top of my list. 

Yes, bullying can lead to massacres and when the US ended the draft in 1973 the number of mass shootings began to rise so Congress should enact compulsory military service or police training as one way to slow gun violence. Enlistment could look like the Swiss model where soon after high school eighteen year olds would join for two or three years then re-up or enroll in the college or vocational training of ones choosing.

That Mrs. Noem and the Trump Organization would protect Iranian protestors and murder Americans is all we need to know about the End Times. 

Ann Telnaes art.

Olson brings backstory on SDGOP civil war

Governor Larry Rhoden and Speaker Jon Hansen are competing for the exact same voters and Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson has everything to gain by that fact so a cynical observer might suspect Johnson is funneling campaign cash to the Hansen camp. 

Shad Olson shared more on red state failure.

Jon Hansen is a dumber version of John Thune. On a national level, the uniparty believes that with Trump off the ballot, the 2026 midterms will mean a Democrat return to power in House and Senate and a Trump impeachment and removal from office.

In "red" states like South Dakota, the Bush-Cheney-Nikki Haley AIPAC-AFP neocons are positioning to retake power and rid themselves of the Tea Party-MAGA movement and a restoration of atheist Koch Network corporatism as the controlled opposition to their indistinguishable "pals" on the left. The uniparty RINO cabal in full control in Pierre. The Hansen-Lems ticket is an AFP vehicle to ensure RINO line of succession in the executive suite. Hansen-Lems have zero pathway to victory... but they're fully capable of ensuring that either Dusty Johnson or Larry Rhoden are able to stave off Toby Doeden's self-funded campaign.

Whether by the innocence of historical and political ignorance or fully informed complicity, shallow idiots like Katie Hoffmann are being swept along in the subversion of the MAGA movement while making endless excuses for their open ties to Pat Powers, Hugh Bartels, Lee Schoenbeck, and the rest of the miniature potentates of the South Dakota swamp salivating over their return to GOP control.

Unlike Katie, I've never believed her bright enough to distinguish fish from fowl in the South Dakota political ethos, much less to engage nuanced policy debates without losing the thread, ending up on the wrong side of the issue and doing massive damage to the conservative movement. She's a moron and proves that, nearly daily.

Quick story... Jon Hansen (and SD Right to Life director Dale Bartscher) were ready, willing and eager to preemptively surrender abortion legalization exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother during the 2024 Amendment G abortion scuffle. They believed stupidly that a preemptive softening of South Dakota's abortion trigger ban would keep Amendment G off the ballot. Because surrender and compromise are their core identities. Thankfully, Hansen and Bartscher were shouted into submission by the stronger and more devout among the pro-life faithful. Preemptive compromise averted. 

Jon admitted to multiple lawmakers in the 2025 session that he never even bothered to read the Scott Odenbach-Kristi Noem-AFP "School Choice" trojan horse monstrosity HB1020 that would have given the Department of Education full curriculum control over beneficiary homeschool and private school families. He never read the bill he cosponsored. 

If this type of cowardice and betrayal are the definition of being a "true fighter," it becomes more clear why the slower members of the church choir have been so utterly deceived, misled and confused.

Beyond that... their constant willingness for slander, cancel culture lies and reputational harm are testimony to a level of both stupidity and bad faith that belongs nowhere near the reigns of power.

A "No Confidence" vote in present leadership by the House of Representatives would be a well-deserved Godsend. A care package of defamation lawsuits and a few years of litigation against their favorite mouthpieces are in order as well and under construction. More on that at a future date.

Guest post: Pierre is a shit hole part n

Watching the South Dakota Republican Party kicking the shit out of one another is invigoratingly therapeutic and South Dakota's favorite former teevee anchorperson Shad Olson isn't known for pulling punches.

In the age of false narratives and the desperate uniparty push to fill the looming post-MAGA power vaccuum [sic] in Pierre, South Dakota, Representative Phil Jensen is just the latest and once again whipping post for defamatory claims and bad treatment by "true fighters" legislative leadership.

In culmination reprise of the 2025 attempt to remove Jensen from his seat on the House Education Committee, Leader Scott Odenbach, through his sidekick, Jon Hansen, finally finished the task, calling Jensen "disruptive," removing him from the committee and replacing him with Representative Liz May, a Hansen for Governor supporter and a special session "YES" vote on the billion dollar prison debacle.

Pay attention to the adjectives, the history and the motivations. Jensen has publicly endorsed Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden for Governor. He sports a perennially near perfect voting score over 18 years as a lawmaker and is a frequent target of leftists, RINOs and of course, illiterate jabberjag RINO blogger, Pat Powers.

Critical smear artists describe Jensen as "disruptive," "belligerent," "radical," "extremist," "hostile," "far right," etc. The usual list reserved for anyone who not heeled to the woke agenda and equally averse to the neoconservative corporatists who pose as "true fighters" in Pierre while overseeing continued domination of state policies by AFP and the selling off of South Dakota utility companies to BlackRock, Vanguard and the World Economic Forum.

Phil's real "sins" and the reasons for his punishment reside in his membership of the Freedom Caucus, his endorsement of the only outsider, non-career politician running for Governor and his well earned status as a gold standard of conservative voting score that exposes purported "conservative" leadership as frauds and duplicitous pretenders to the throne.

In the wake of a clearly pretextual kerfuffle over an Education Committee seating chart shakeup on the first day of session, sources say Leader Scott Odenbach's expressed threat to no less than four other conservative Education Committee members was to remove them en masse, presumably to pave the way for committee passage of his latest attempts at AFP-approved "School Choice" dictates and whatever other monstrosity RINO crank Lana Greenfield decides to inflict on her Ed Committee fiefdom.

Last year, Representative Phil Jensen was thrown off of his House Education Committee Vice-Chair after introducing a bill to temporarily defund the Huron School District as a vehicle to highlight that district's systemic nonresponsiveness to female student complaints about a male student who was using female restroom facilities at Huron High School.

Jensen's 2025 Huron school defunding bill was later withdrawn as House conservatives succeeded in passing Representative Brandei Schaefbauer's HB 1259, an outright ban on men in women's public multioccupancy bathroom, lockerroom and changing areas. After House and Senate passage, interim Governor Larry Rhoden unceremoniously signed the Schaefbauer transgender bathroom ban bill into law.

Despite demonstrated courage for hotbutton issues and the toughest of political fights earning her constant blowback of threats and intimidation from the isnanity of the political left, Schaefbauer herself has been similarly targeted and maligned by House leadership for similar motivations. Schaefbauer, like Phil Jensen, has endorsed Toby Doeden for governor. Schaefbauer, like Jensen, voted against the billion dollar prison project and has been an outspoken critic of backroom tactics and troubling reports of quid pro quo in the final prison vote tally.

So, Jensen is out. Liz May, duly supplicated to the Hansen ticket and a self-described "crazy" "YES" vote on the September 23 prison boondoggle is in, as the Odenbach-Hansen appointee to fill Jensen's Education Committee seat.

And the beatdown goes on.

Jensen, Schaefbauer, John Carley, Dylan Jordan, Logan Manhart, Josephine Garcia and others have been summarily targeted by Odenbach mouthpieces and Hansen-Lems sycophants, despite sporting more conservative voting scores than the people casting stones from voting record houses made of Tiffany glass.

Obey, [bend] the knee, shut your mouth, or stern private excoriations by Odenbach and Hansen will be followed by public defamation and distortionary destruction campaigns by the Pat Powers-Katie Hoffmann Tweedle-Twaddle tagteam.

Such is the persecution, retribution and vindictive small man treatment doled out by the Hansen-Odenbach-Lems-Beving-Pat Powers AFP consortium in these early days of the splintered and doomed 2026 legislative session that is fulfilling every easy prediction for acrimonious stench and grassroots schism beneath the scorched earth power scramble of the upcoming GOP [g]ubernatorial primary.

It's Pierre, [after all]. And the idiot RINOs are in control.

Earth hater Deibert votes against increase in gold severance

Morbidly obese Spearditch Earth hater Randy Deibert is a surveyor whose conflicts of interest compelled him to vote against the Black Hills environment and for his miner clients. According to a source within the South Dakota Legislature Deibert also has contracts with the LawCo lab named for a usurious pedophile.

Learn more at South Dakota Searchlight.

Noem's racism on full display in Minneapolis

Her father, who smothered in a 1994 grain bin incident and likely modeled extramarital proclivities, hated American Indians, she hates Indians and Donald Trump hates Indians.