BILLINGS — In Montana, private property rights are sacred, and several generations of family residency are oft-cited by locals to claim even greater privileges.
So it’s a crazy tale that a group of wealthy nonresident landowners succeeded in sabotaging Sweet Grass County ranchers Rick Jarrett and Alfred and Dorothy Anderson’s efforts about six years ago to have a wind farm built on their land.
“It was a modern-day range war in a warming West — a fight for power in its most elemental form,” wrote Amy Gamerman, author of a newly published book on Jarrett and the Andersons’ struggles and the forces involved.
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