Migratory elk that have moved through the Gallatin Valley for millennia each year find it tougher going to navigate their way through a maze of sprawl and leapfrog development, especially as open ag lands disappear. If conservation is going to happen, it needs to do so fast, and there needs to be a strategy that has been lacking not only from city-county government but there's been no plan put forth by conservation organizations. Photo by Rob Sisson