Gallatin Forest Partnership
The Gallatin and Madison ranges are southwest Montana’s wild backyards. Teeming with wildlife and steeped in historical recreational uses, these ranges serve as Bozeman, Livingston, Big Sky and West Yellowstone’s favorite after-work and weekend playgrounds.
These public lands also provide vital resources to our community, including nearly 80% of Bozeman’s drinking water supply, and are rich in important undeveloped open spaces and trails that attract business to southwest Montana and feed our growing outdoor recreation economy.
For many years, diverse stakeholders have come together, put their differences aside, and focused on creating land-management solutions for these areas that benefit all. In this collaborative spirit we have created the Gallatin Forest Partnership, and reached an agreement about how valued public lands within the Gallatin and Madison ranges should be managed.
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As more and more people are moving to southwest Montana, more and more people are using these places creating conflict either between people and/or with wildlife. This agreement provides all of us – people and animals – trails and streams and places in the Gallatin and Madison Ranges to adventure and explore. We can solidify these protections with legislation.