HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-27-28 Public Comment - A. Breuer, Center for Large Landscape Conservation - UDO comments on streams and wetlandsFrom:abigail@largelandscapes.org
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]UDO comments on streams and wetlands
Date:Tuesday, August 26, 2025 4:00:27 PM
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Dear City of Bozeman,
Attached, please find comments by the Center for Large Landscape Conservation in
support of UDO recommendations and specific provisions in Appendix A to elevate
attention to streams, wetlands and floodplains provided to the City on May 20, 2025, by
the Gallatin Watershed Council.
We appreciate the opportunity to offer the information attached.
Thank you,
Abigail Breuer
Abigail Breuer
Conservation Project Specialist
406.586.8082 Bozeman, MT
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August 26, 2025
Dear City Commission,
We write to provide unreserved support for the UDO recommendations and specific provisions in
Appendix A to elevate attention to streams, wetlands and floodplains, offered by the Gallatin
Watershed Council in its memo to the City Commission dated May 20th, 2025. In the arid West,
water is life and greater stewardship of streams and wetlands within Bozeman city limits has
ramifications for every natural resource consideration and every City resident.
The Center for Large Landscape Conservation serves to address the complexity of landscape
conservation such that ecosystem function and the critical ecosystem services on which all life
depends remain intact. Given its topographic location, within the limits of the City of Bozeman,
strengthening protection for streams and their floodplains, along with wetlands, is the primary
opportunity to conserve natural resources within our rapidly growing community.
Conserving ecological resiliency by maintaining intact streams, floodplains and wetlands would
benefit City residents in multiple ways. So doing:
• Increases resiliency to a changing climate by improving carbon sequestration and mitigating
heat islands and droughts.
• Enhances ecosystem services like aquifer recharge and buffering of flood events.
• Maintains air and water quality from which people benefit.
• Facilitates parks and greenways with accessible nature, an amenity that benefits human
health.
Further, several cost-benefit analyses highlight increased property values and associated financial
benefits to towns and counties that maintain connected open space.
We hope the City will ensure Bozeman residents are able to enjoy the benefits of functioning water
systems as development continues.
Thank you for your attention.
Abigail Breuer
Program Specialist