A hiker gazes into the drainage of the Buffalo Horn, one of the most wildlife-rich parts of the Gallatin Mountains and an area that Joe Gutkoski knew by heart. As a Forest Service landscape architect he waged an insider's fight to successfully stop a proposed road from being built through the Buffalo Horn connecting US Highway 191 near Big Sky with Tom Miner Basin and thus providing a shortcut to Paradise Valley and Yellowstone National Park's main entrance. It would have radically destroyed the roadless wild character that still exists in the Gallatins today. Photo courtesy George Wuerthner
A hiker gazes into the drainage of the Buffalo Horn, one of the most wildlife-rich parts of the Gallatin Mountains and an area that Joe Gutkoski knew by heart. As a Forest Service landscape architect he waged an insider's fight to successfully stop a proposed road from being built through the Buffalo Horn connecting US Highway 191 near Big Sky with Tom Miner Basin and thus providing a shortcut to Paradise Valley and Yellowstone National Park's main entrance. It would have radically destroyed the roadless wild character that still exists in the Gallatins today. Photo courtesy George Wuerthner