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Is forever too long? Landowners tell Montana lawmakers to butt out of property decisions
To make something perpetual is everlasting and permanent — so a long, long time. When it comes to paying landowners not to develop their property using perpetual conservation easements, that’s way too long for people like Chuck Denowh of United Property …