Our Water. Our Creek.
Our Water. Our Creek.
Release the heart of Bozeman Creek and let the spirit of the water flow free.
Marsha F. Small
Otataveenovae (Blue Tipi Woman)
Tsistsistah (Northern Cheyenne)
Bozeman Creek is the largest source of surface water for the City of Bozeman. It is the central artery for humans and wildlife, irrigation, and fire safety.
Yet the steady flow we count on every day can pose risk from flooding. Snow melt combined with heavy rains can overwhelm existing systems that channelize the creek through the city. Downtown is especially at risk.
SeeBozemanCreek is a citizens group on a mission to make a risky situation better. The group consists of designers, engineers, scientists, advocates and artists. Over the last four years, each one has given hours of their time and expertise, expecting little in return other than progress toward and community engagement with a shared vision.
Now is the time to build a coalition of citizens, leaders, property and business owners, and anyone with energy and effort to advance SeeBozemanCreek. After all, as Mayor Cunningham said in a recent address, “Bozeman Creek is our creek.”
"Bozeman Creek is a strategic priority for the city. Converting priorities to results will depend on finding inventive ways to engage with the community on matters of significant importance and earn citizens' trust in the process"
- Mayor Terry Cunningham
The mission of SeeBozemanCreek is to lead a path to resiliency and revitalization of the creek from a neglected risky liability into an honorable asset worth of its cultural history and its potential benefits to the city, especially downtown.
