Top%3A signs have been springing up in Paradise Valley%2C Montana defiantly mocking any calls to implement zoning in order to protect wildlife%2C ranch land and the sense of place. At the same time%2C residents of Park County vow that they never want %22to become like Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley.%22 Ironic%2C considering that the more Park County rejects zoning the more it seems destined to become the Gallatin Valley which has lost more than 100%2C000 acres of open space and wildlife habitat to exurban development in the absence of zoning. These photos by Holly Pippel show the stressful life of wapiti and a herd of elk in the Gallatin Valley that returned to home ground currently being torn up by heavy machinery to make way for a new subdivision.
Top%3A signs have been springing up in Paradise Valley%2C Montana defiantly mocking any calls to implement zoning in order to protect wildlife%2C ranch land and the sense of place. At the same time%2C residents of Park County vow that they never want %22to become like Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley.%22 Ironic%2C considering that the more Park County rejects zoning the more it seems destined to become the Gallatin Valley which has lost more than 100%2C000 acres of open space and wildlife habitat to exurban development in the absence of zoning. These photos by Holly Pippel show the stressful life of wapiti and a herd of elk in the Gallatin Valley that returned to home ground currently being torn up by heavy machinery to make way for a new subdivision.