https://sciencemontana.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/to-bypass-billionaires-hunters-fly-in-to-access-prime-elk-habitat/

Pretty neat if anyone had the low down on the more landable places. I've never even been to that area. Looks neat.

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I'll check it out, good find. It's going up on the refrigerator, where all my future flights are posted. I get a slow couple days I pick one, and go for it.

It is interesting how the article says. “No one is against personal property rights, but that doesn’t mean that they have the right to control a piece of public property,” It is clear to me, that from the tone writer used he does in fact have a problem with the brothers.

He also had to tell us that the brothers made their money from.

"Dan and Farris Wilks, a pair of brothers from Texas who made their $3-billion fortune in hydraulic fracturing, have purchased more than 341,845 acres in Montana as of 2014. Their controlling stakes in ranches that hold access rights to various wildlife habitats have placed them at the center of conflict between differing land values."

As with most tree huggers it is OK for their side to lock up land, and they have plenty locked up. But if you disagree with their values then you likely going to be harassed.

IMO the only thing worse than private owners locking the public off the their land is when the BLM, Forest Service, or National Parks lock us off our land. When tree huggers from the east coast get my Forest Service roads closed to motor vehicles I don't like that.

Rant over

I don't know anything about the specific issues in this case to have any opinion at all. Like all things Montanan about natural resources, you get 10 people in a room and you'll get 42 mutually exclusive, strongly held opinions.

The cool thing is the area. The Judith Gap area is nice, but I've never been in those hills to the east. It apparently has the second largest herd of elk in the state, which I did not know. That by itself is neat, and would be need for antlering at the very least. A lower elevation area that is quiet and cow free is a big plus. If the wind blows anything like Judith Gap, it could be a real factor.