Park County Community Journal

The Water Wars in Big Timber End in a Ceasefire Big Timber—The water war waged to the east in Sweetgrass County has ceased. In Big Timber, a clash between big business and representative democracy saw the latter emerge victorious when city council members and Mayor Greg DeBoer temporarily suspended bulk water sales (excluding support for emerge...

The Water Saga of Crazy Mountain Ranch What began in the Shields Valley over two years ago as a battle for water rights has now ended in a consent decree between the Crazy Mountain Ranch (CMR) and the Montana Department of Natural Resource Conservation (DNRC), the latter of which had filed a recent lawsuit on July 11th