Just outside Yellowstone National Park you'll find towering peaks, sapphire creeks, deep forests, and sunny meadows where wildlife thrive and people seek adventure.
Yellowstone National Park Custer Gallatin National Forest
2
These are the Madison and Gallatin ranges. Grizzly bears, elk, and mountain goats roam between here and Yellowstone. Clean water flows from the mountains.
Fisheye Guy Photography
3
Here, people connect to nature and seek outdoor adventure. Hundreds of thousands explore this special place every year.
Louise Johns Photography
4
With nearby communities growing fast thanks to a desire to live near these public lands, more people are enjoying the Gallatin and Madison ranges. We need to act quickly to ensure these lands stay healthy for generations to come.
Developed areas 2016
5
Recreationists, businesspeople, landowners, conservationists, and others worked together to develop a plan that protects what we all love about these mountains. That plan is the Gallatin Forest Partnership proposal.
GFP Proposal areas Existing Wilderness
6
This proposal will protect 250,000 acres, securing wildlife habitat, wilderness, and recreation access. It will prevent road building and industrial development from changing this unique place.
Louise Johns Photography
7
The proposal will permanently protect the Hyalite Porcupine Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area, resolving decades of uncertainty.
Louise Johns Photography
WSA boundary
8
Hyalite Canyon and Bozeman Creek are some of the most popular recreation areas in the region. They also provide 80% of Bozeman's drinking water.
The proposal protects the remote peaks by prohibiting new trail construction; safeguards drinking water by limiting development; and improves trails in the frontcountry where most people recreate.
Emily Cleveland
Proposed Hyaliate Watershed Protection and Recreation Area
9
West Pine is a wild and relatively untravelled corner of the Gallatins and a refuge for elk, deer, grizzly bears and other wildlife roaming north from Yellowstone. The proposal keeps this area non-motorized and allows mountain biking on existing Forest Service trails.
Fisheye Guy Photography
Proposed West Pine Wildlife & Recreation Management Area
10
The Partnership proposes investing in two additional trail segments. The first eliminates the need for a shuttle and provides better biking opportunities near Livingston.
Emily Cleveland
Existing trails New trails
11
The second opens opportunities for long-distance riding in the area. Beyond these two trail segments, the GFP proposal prohibits any additional trail construction to avoid breaking up habitat.
12
Close to Yellowstone, the Porcupine Buffalo Horn area provides important habitat for a wide range of native species, including elk, grizzly bear, moose, bighorn sheep, and wolverine. Trail users are just as varied here, including hikers, horseback riders, mountain bikers, dirt bikers and snowmobilers. The proposal will maintain existing recreational access and protect wildlife habitat by preventing new trail construction.
Fisheye Guy Photography
Proposed Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wildlife & Recreation Management Area
13
The heart of the Gallatin Range is as wild as it gets, with room for adventure, wildlife, and solitude. People enjoy exploring by foot or by horse. The proposal calls for Wilderness - the strongest protection possible - from Hyalite Lake south to Yellowstone.
Louise Johns Photography
Proposed Wilderness
14
The proposal expands the existing Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area in the Madison Range by adding key areas to protect a more intact, wild landscape.
Emily Cleveland
Proposed Wilderness -
15
The Gallatin Forest Partnership proposal is our best chance to protect this unique place we all love, now and for future generations. Be part of this historic solution and endorse the proposal today!
.42dd5061.jpg)
.26508235.jpg)
