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‘Don’t commodify our public land’

by Stewards of the Swan Valley
| September 18, 2024 12:00 AM

Two years ago, a Utah ski corporation and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced a plan to highly develop the rustic Holland Lake Lodge on public land in Condon in the rural Swan Valley.

The ski corporation, POWDR, and USFS touched off a blistering public debate about the future not only of the small town and relatively wild valley, but a discussion about the future of Montana and the high-dollar outside influences changing the Big Sky State’s property, social and natural values.

Skip ahead two years, and the situation has only become more challenging.

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