Montana Leaders Are Flirting With The Land Transfer Movement

Mingling with those who have pushed to privatize public lands was too toxic for the campaign trail. Not anymore.

When freshman Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) was running for office last year, he failed to disclose that he had served on the board of the Property and Environment Research Center, a Montana-based nonprofit that promotes “free market environmentalism” and has a history of advocating for the privatization of federal acres.

After I reported Sheehy’s ties to PE…