This map shows the "checkerboarded" Crazy Mountains, along with the four trails (Nos. 267, 195, 122, and 136) named in the lawsuit. Map courtesy of Enhancing Montana’s Wildlife and Habitat One ...

But unlike most other most popular mountain wildlands in Montana, the Crazies are not all public soil. Much of it is in a checkerboard ownership, that is in places, a land ownership map that looks ...

In Montana’s Crazy Mountains, private landowners have restricted access to public lands, including in the Sweet Grass Creek drainage, shown here. PHOTO BY BRUCE GORDON/ECOFLIGHT Our map ...

Megan DeHaan was sitting in a camp chair in a hay field near Lennep in late July, refreshing, and refreshing again, a web page showing dots scattered around the Crazy Mountains. The dots ...