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Wilks brothers take land exchange offer public on website

By Brett French, Billings Gazette
Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014

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In an unusual tactic, Montana's largest private landowners have taken their proposal for a land exchange with the Bureau of Land Management directly to the public via a website.

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