With its snow-covered ridgeline in the distance, the Gallatin Range rises above the western side of Paradise Valley and extends from the backyards of Bozeman and Livingston southward into Yellowstone National Park. As human impacts and presence grow on the other side of the Gallatins in Big Sky and as Paradise Valley fills in with more people and climate change brings hotter and drier conditions, the Gallatins will become even more important as a place of refuge for wildlife, scientists say. Photo by Todd Wilkinson
With its snow-covered ridgeline in the distance, the Gallatin Range rises above the western side of Paradise Valley and extends from the backyards of Bozeman and Livingston southward into Yellowstone National Park. As human impacts and presence grow on the other side of the Gallatins in Big Sky and as Paradise Valley fills in with more people and climate change brings hotter and drier conditions, the Gallatins will become even more important as a place of refuge for wildlife, scientists say. Photo by Todd Wilkinson