Smaller places of accommodation also have boarded the environmental bandwagon. Efforts at the 33-room Boulder Hot Springs Inn, Spa & Retreat in Boulder, Montana, (above) fit its " green hotel" goal of “living with the planet instead of destroying it, or using it up.” In addition to common conservation projects, these include remodeling the heating system to take advantage of local geothermal waters and studying use of the waters to generate electricity. The property also is restoring the adjacent natural wetlands, which had been drained to provide pasture; this has resulted in return of moose, antelope, deer and other wildlife to what had been a protected sanctuary.
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