08/01/2025
Affordable Housing… Even the Bears Are Looking. 🐻
This guy showed up in the Sam’s Club parking lot last week—and honestly, can you blame him? Housing is hard to find, even if you’re just looking for a quiet wooded spot to call home.
I was talking with a friend—an experienced realtor—who reminded me that interest rates are too high right now for most families to get into the market. She’s right. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything.
One thing we can do is reopen the conversation about responsible timber industry development. Reviving local mills and managing forests wisely means more jobs, more local lumber for homes, and fewer catastrophic wildfires.
🔥 Montana has seen over 2 million acres burned in the last five fire seasons.
🏡 Meanwhile, the median home price in many Montana towns is now over $400,000.
🪵 And more than 20 sawmills have closed across the state in the past few decades.
We all want to protect our land and wildlife. But doing nothing isn’t protecting anything—not the forests, not the animals, not the people. Fires are burning hotter, faster, and farther. And when the trees go up in smoke, so do homes—animal and human alike.
It’s time for solutions rooted in stewardship, not slogans. Montana can lead the way—because even the bears know we’re running out of space.