Connectivity matters

Even in the fast-growing Flathead Valley this is still a wide open place. But if we don't take steps now to preserve important wildlife corridors, we will lose them to development. This effort to preserve some of the last remaining wild shoreline on Flathead Lake deserves our support.

A few years ago I wrote a story about a statewide effort to preserve wildlife corridors in Arizona, something called the Arizona Linkages Project. Montana has a ways to go before in matches Arizona in terms of sprawl, but it is a lot easier to plan ahead than to try to fix things when the earth movers are rolling as folks in the Grand Canyon State are trying to do.