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 ...

For those willing to hoof it long distances on foot, Montana’s Crazy Mountains ... ratios of mountain goats. In addition to overnight backpacking gear, we carried notepads and maps, taking ...

For those willing to hoof it long distances on foot, Montana’s Crazy Mountains offer solitude ... Goat hunters don’t often need cadastral maps to check property boundaries, but in the Crazies ...

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 ...