Survey Results

These results show that everyone we interviewed lives in Bozeman and has noticed growth.

As a community member, what parts of your community do you see being affected the most by the changes you have noticed?

Alyson Roberts: A decrease in affordable housing is the most significant impact to this growth. Lower wage workers will find it increasingly difficult to live here. The strain on our already scarce resources, like water, is the next.

How do you think the next genneration can help protect and preserve the Greater Yellowstone Ecosysten?

Heide Arneson:

We all need to think about how we can use our wonderful natural resources without using them all up. Trail etiquette,

staying off muddy trails, not picking the last of things.

What makes the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem special to you?

Katy Ross:

I love that it's still a little wild. It's beautiful and there aren't too many people yet.

Paul Calabro:

It offers a variety of levels of development (or non-development) for me, as someone with varied mountain interests. I love being able to get in uphill skiing or trail running before work at 8am, and I love being able to hunt on public land, and I love being able to really get out there away from roads and development on weekends. The GYE has levels of accessibility for just about everyone and every objective.

As seen in the results above the changes the people we sent the survey out to noticed were negatively affecting the reasons they moved here. Most of them really liked the wildness.