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Students and residents urge county action on data centers, wildfire planning and open‑space funding
Summary
Several students and residents used the public‑comment period to urge Gallatin County to strengthen wildfire planning using GIS, oppose large data centers over water and energy concerns, and increase the open‑lands levy to preserve agricultural and wildlife areas.
Several members of the public urged Gallatin County commissioners on April 14 to take policy steps on three related threats: rising wildfire risk, large data centers’ demands on water and energy, and the need to boost funding for open‑land conservation.
“My name is Abigail Riddell, and I’m a student at Montana State University,” Riddell said, urging county officials to use geographic information system (GIS) tools that integrate climate projections with population and infrastructure data to better model future wildfire scenarios and guide long‑term resource allocation. “Using…
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