Inside Montana's fight to block the sale of federally owned land - 60 Minutes

[SouthBayDem]

The old license plates read "Big Sky Country," but inside Montana, there's an unofficial state motto: "the last best place." Hemmed by the Plains and the Pacific Northwest, Montana is a patchwork of golden prairies and green mountains, with rivers that run through it. And the last best place suggests a warding off of the onslaught of outside forces. So this year, when Washington, D.C., politicians suggested selling off public lands for development as part of the so-called "big beautiful" budget bill, Montanans of all political stripes stood in opposition. Is this a rare example of modern bipartisanship, proof that there are some issues that can knit Americans together? Or are these frontierfolk just delaying the inevitable?

Why Montana fought to protect federal public lands and what's at stake if they were sold off - full transcript of the Nov. 23 segment.

[montanacowboy]

1. And yet

they vote for the very politicians who will bring it on. Heartbreaking....