By Grace Gibson-Snyder and Anne Hedges, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Dear Montana,
It’s 2025, and we don’t deserve you. Your towering mountains and sweeping plains nourish us, sustain us, challenge us, and welcome us. Your clean rivers and clear skies provide us with joy while your forests and prairies provide refuge for countless wildlife.
It’s 2025, and there are so many who seek to take advantage of you, Montana, to take everything that makes you special and suck it dry for profit. Those who seek to extract every last resource underground, or place endless, lifeless subdivisions across your landscape, or fill your rivers with pollution that chokes all life out.
