Wild Sky Beef is part of American Prairie Reserve’s mission to provide habitat for wildlife.
The for-profit arm of APR is paying its neighboring ranchers if they agree to be wildlife friendly.
Some ranchers in central and northeastern Montana resent APR, and its wealthy backers, for buying or leasing their neighbor’s land and turning loose free-roaming bison.
5th generation rancher David Crasco used to be one of those ranchers.
Laura Huggins, the CEO of Wild Sky Beef, remembers her first meeting with Crasco, “He came up to me and said, ‘Hi, you’re my enemy.’ And I said, ‘Are you sure about that? I don’t think I’m your enemy.’”
“At first it was. I used to call them the enemy,” Crasco says laughing.
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