Top: signs have been springing up in Paradise Valley, Montana defiantly mocking any calls to implement zoning in order to protect wildlife, ranch land and the sense of place. At the same time, residents of Park County vow that they never want "to become like Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley." Ironic, considering that the more Park County rejects zoning the more it seems destined to become the Gallatin Valley which has lost more than 100,000 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: signs have been springing up in Paradise Valley, Montana defiantly mocking any calls to implement zoning in order to protect wildlife, ranch land and the sense of place. At the same time, residents of Park County vow that they never want "to become like Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley." Ironic, considering that the more Park County rejects zoning the more it seems destined to become the Gallatin Valley which has lost more than 100,000 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.