Sprawl: Montana

MONTANA

The Montana Smart Growth Coalition was formed in November 1999. According to information posted on its web site: "Montanans understand that sprawl is negatively impacting our lives. We're spending more time in our cars, traveling further to get outside of town, watching our favorite vistas disappear behind walls of new houses and pavement. Nouveau ranchettes scatter houses across wildlife habitat and floodplain valleys at a density of one house per twenty acres. The roads, power lines and septic fields associated with each of those houses also take their toll on the environment. We no longer know our neighbors."

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