Opinion: Here in Montana, our current conservation easement laws are strong, and we believe they should be maintained as such, despite misguided attempts to do away with this tool.

Opinion: No one should be able to take advantage of another individual’s property. In recent years, both the nation and ...

During opening remarks Tuesday to introduce a bill aimed at restricting the terms of perpetual conservation easements in Montana, a Republican lawmaker from Ennis offered to table the measure before ...

The Unlawful Enclosures Act he mentioned is a relic of the legislature from over 150 years ago, determined by the U.S.

HELENA — A controversial bill was discussed Tuesday, January 28, at the Montana Legislative Committee in the Capitol building. Montana House Bill 216, introduced by Rep. Tracy Sharp, R-Polson, seeks ...

The Ratcatcher examines the racial land-ownership data on which the EWC push is being justified The numbers in the 2017 State Land Audit report on “Private Land Ownership ... As the land capability ...

To make further provision as to the purchase and leasing of land by Natives and other Persons in the several parts of the Union and for other Persons in the several parts of the Union and for other ...

Although the agency touts the leases as an alternative to perpetual conservation easements, the Gianforte administration has ...

The Help Center launched its Answering the Call Campaign in late 2023 to help raise nearly $5 million to purchase its property from Western Montana Mental Health in March last year. Now the non ...

United States Human Rights Violations against the Numu/Nuwu and Newe in the Rush for Lithium,” found that the US Bureau of ...

PHOTO/DENIS EDEMA Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) have embarked on a campaign to train on handling land conflicts and ownership ... sentenced Private Herbertson Birivumbuka to death ...

Montana bill would change how levies are calculated Supporters of HB 20 say a lot of the shock Montanans feel from rising property taxes comes from voted levies – when local governments ask ...