Preserve Wildlife Pocket

A few years ago, my daughter and I rode our bikes through this area to grab a bight to eat. On our way home, we stopped to watch 3 juvenile hawks messing around in the front yard/dead-end street near the greenway between Babcock and Durston. It was magical and I felt so fortunate to be able to sit on a curb and watch these critters, whose presence was made possible by the small stand of forest less than a block away.

Here is an easy opportunity to put a small but productive wildlife habitat ahead of human conveniences. Do not disguise this as benefiting climate and lowering emissions by providing direct routes and spreading traffic. It is a small inconvenience to go around. By putting even a narrow road through here will have catastrophically destructive consequences for this small ecosystem and the wildlife that live there.

Zoom in on this location and ask yourself, is this habitat's destruction really necessary and worth the goal you seek? For once, can't we live in their world and not the other way around? The latter will result in displacement or death. Come ON, Bozeman!