Tate took this photograph on a recent hike into the mountains. He loves the stormy weather, especially thunderstorms that bring rain, but he senses that many locals are feeling rattled by the record inundation of people moving to Bozeman and soaring recreation on public lands and waterways. While it's easy to gripe, tougher is adopting a cohesive strategy for confronting it—a strategy that must be led, he says, by elected leaders.