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Karl Puckett, Great Falls Tribune Published 4:48 p.m. MT Oct. 24, 2018 | Updated 4:35 p.m. MT Oct. 25, 2018
Forest Service says it wants public access in exchange
TWO DOT — Owners of a cattle ranch here, fed up they can't access private islands of land they own within the public forest in the Crazy Mountains, say they plan to lay out roads to access the property with or without the government's approval.
Mac and Melody White own the McFarland White Ranch, which has been around since 1907.
In 2019, Mac White says, he plans to build roads at four corner crossings where his land and federal land meet at the corners. The four crossings will total about 2,500 feet.
“I’m just going to do it,” Mac White said recently at his scenic ranch on the edge of eastern Crazy Mountains.
The three isolated parcels of land, about 1,020 acres, are in the mountains eight miles southwest of the main ranch in an inventoried roadless area in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest.
Historical access to the inholdings in the eastern Crazies has been by foot or horseback...
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