The enviro-weenies and liberal control freaks in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle are complaining again about the gravel pit between Bozeman and Belgrade. Something must be done! Our implied aesthetic of unmarred landscapes is under attack by this abomination of modern techno-rapine! The air, the air—it’s everywhere!
Oh yeah. You got a four-lane interstate on one side of the gravel pit and the main east-west Burlington Northern train tracks on the other side. Meanwhile, as the exhaust fumes rise upward, airliners spray aviation fuel down on all the cars and trains and all the little houses below as the jets take off and land nearby.
Oh yeah. That gravel pit is a real problem, all right. Maybe they should move it to Livingston. That way the cost of concrete for all the new foundations in Bozeman and Belgrade, and the cost of pavement for all the new subdivision roads, will skyrocket and end the building boom in affordable housing.
On the other hand, maybe they should extend the gravel pit to cover the entire distance from Bozeman to Belgrade and just tell everybody it’s the Largest Barrow Pit on Earth. They could run the tourists through the pit by the busload. Maybe even rent them dune buggies for a self-guided tour. Everybody knows tourism is the future of Montana—and tourists are awfully dumb.
The truth is the gravel pit is the highest use for that land. In any free or semi-free economy, resources always gravitate toward their highest use. Who would be mining, screening, and washing gravel at that site for a few bucks a ton if the place were worth anything?
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