Land access is slowly transforming into a commodity available for purchase. I wrote a piece for @mtfreepress examining the way some of the big players are shaping the marketplace of access in #Montana. (1/5) 🧵

@WxNB_ @EarthScope_sci How you get one of these?

Hitting the slopes with my friends. Had a Hokkaido powder day on the high plains. The lifts are down, but we sessioned some off piste runs. Heading back to the lodge for some apres cocoa.

@lawsonatlas I'd be far more in favor of a comprehensive system of trade that favors good actors and penalizes bad actors. Just incentivize free and fair elections, not defrauding citizens, not dispoiling the environment, etc etc, lay out the conditions and let them respond.

@alan406mt And maybe we need to pillory all of the legislators (R&D!) who claim to be against, but voted for these kinds of projects!

@kayteebee99 I need to move to southern latitudes 😱🫣🥹

@femmenart

@NeonTetraploid

@alan406mt You use paper gas cans? Great Falls is cooked.

@lawsonatlas @walterkirn I mean, it's not exactly new. Congressmen have been serving up steaming examples of pork for a long time. One such:

@fishthingking 90% of it looks exactly like Eastern Montana and I could handle that 😂

@paularambles Or like a good colon cleanse? A real thorough confession?

@alan406mt lol can you imagine if we had big corps snooping into our business!!

@spazzaturina Saw a billboard in real life that was a part of this hilarious ad campaign back in like 2006 and it never left me. My wife and I died when we saw it. You have to imagine a room full of marketing CEOs seeing this and everyone nodding in approval.

@KaiserForMT As long as there is another way to keep this trend flatlined

@TchrFinlyWrites @hillbillythings Yeah but we still have a pile of asphalt in the Yellowstone that will never be recovered. Low key a long term disaster for us with really no momentum to study or fix.

Google Street View apparently thought that this cloud looked like a face and blurred it. This is Google's commitment to cloud privacy.

@sam_d_1995 @theRealDanVCFA The stats in real life be like