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American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana

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291 points mooreds | 6 comments | 18 Sep 25 15:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source | bottom
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huhkerrf ◴[18 Sep 25 16:15 UTC] No.45291463[source]▶
> The group bought the land from two billionaire Texas brothers who’d kept the public locked out of one of the only western access roads into adjacent public land,

There's something uniquely evil about locking the public out of public lands.

I'm looking at you, too, Vinod Khosla.

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1. k33n ◴[18 Sep 25 16:35 UTC] No.45291742[source]▶
There's so much biased journalism that you really have to read things twice before using words like "evil".

> locked out of ONE OF THE ONLY western access roads

So not locked out. And accessible from all 4 orientations.

(edit: lol, break the rules and downvote all you want. this site loves dishonest journalism if it confirms their wrong biases)

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2. em-bee ◴[18 Sep 25 16:57 UTC] No.45292045[source]▶
not completely locked out of access to the area, but locked out of using one of the only available road to that area.
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3. k33n ◴[18 Sep 25 17:09 UTC] No.45292210[source]▶
So not locked out of the area by any stretch of the imagination and no evil was done.
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4. mulmen ◴[18 Sep 25 17:26 UTC] No.45292429{3}[source]▶
Yeah just drive around West Texas and come in the other side.
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5. daemonologist ◴[18 Sep 25 17:49 UTC] No.45292723[source]▶
As far as I can tell from CalTopo, land north of the Missouri, east of Birch Creek, and west of Cow Creek was previously only accessible either via this private land or by approaching from the east and fording Cow Creek here: https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=47.95479,-109.04672&z=18&b=i...

Anyways, yes, only locked out of the road, not the land.

6. k33n ◴[19 Sep 25 00:04 UTC] No.45296491{4}[source]▶
Or just use one of the other still accessible western roads.