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The end of civilization.
Solution: Give it back to the Plains Indians, herd and harvest buffalo, big tourism dollars as well as profits from buffalo beef, leather etc. etc.
Create a park stretching from Montana to Kansas, call it "Great Plains Open Range" and let people at it. Indians get dibs, since we stole it from them.