From that towering bastion of journalist prowess that is the Bozeman Daily Chronicle came this piece over the weekend – For Montana’s Water Rights, a Radical and Likely Doomed Idea.
This actually comes straight out of our “we told you so file”, as we and many of our friends have been talking about this one for years – the coming battle over legacy water rights in the state.
If you’re one of those who don’t give a damn about water law in the West, skip this one.
If, on the other hand, you do have an interest, and if you fish, farm, ranch or recreate in Montana (or the West) you have an keen interest in how water is governed and managed. There’s a reason groups like (Montana) Trout Unlimited and the Montana Wildlife Federation won’t touch the issue with a 10-foot pole.
The article presents a fairly biased case for rewriting over a century of water law, inferring that a legal or judicial solution is the answer, though work done by the Henry’s Fork Foundation and the Big Hole Watershed Coalition suggests otherwise.
This’ll be worth watching…
