Opposing Groups Differ on How to Define Land Use

Anyone travelling in North Central Montana has likely seen one of the signs declaring: "Save the Cowboy; Stop the American Prairie Reserve." They are taped to windows, staked in lawns or fields, and affixed to fences-like the one on the Highway 2 corridor near Zurich. This banner speaks out in the conflict between the American Prairie Reserve and the Save the Cowboy (STC) movement.

According to their website, the American Prairie Reserve (renamed American Prairie in 2021), is an environmental nonprofit headquartered in Bozeman. Their mission is "to create the largest nature reserve in the cont...