Author: Bill Simkins

Bill Simkins is a fourth-generation Montanan, who has a law degree and experience as an international businessman. He says conservation is inextricably connected to responsible, conservative business values. Beginning in the 1990s, Simkis was part of an effort to bring planning cohesion to Big Sky by building the Town Center area and giving that unincorporated resort community in the Madison Mountain a better unifying sense of place. He says never could have predicted the level of inundation of development that has happened in Greater Yellowstone in recent decades and now, as a person who grew up venerating the great outdoors, believes the best public wildlands in Greater Yellowstone need to be protected at the highest level to ensure survival of wildlife and the character of the region people cherish. While he has deep connections in Big Sky and fondness for its people, he believes the community ought to rally behind efforts to protect as much of the roadless Gallatin Range as possible with wilderness status. He says the scientific evidence supporting that position is clear and robust.

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Prominent Businessperson: Don’t Sacrifice Gallatin Range For Short-Term Monetary Gain

Bill Simkins, a fourth-generation Montanan, grew up as a classic fiscal conservative who loved the outdoors and adhered to the ideals of Theodore Roosevelt. As an attorney and international businessman, he had a hand in building Big Sky. Today he says it’s vital that a stretch of mountains between Bozeman and Yellowstone receive highest protection

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