Land Board votes to authorize state water regulator to protest 18 water rights

Land Board votes to authorize state water regulator to protest 18 water rights

A version of this story was originally published in the MT Lowdown, a weekly newsletter digest containing original reporting and analysis published every Friday. The Montana Land Board on Monday voted 4-1 to authorize Montana’s water right regulator to file protests on 18 privately held water rights that are used to irrigate State Trust Land. The vote follows last year’s heated debate over the ownership of water rights developed on private land …