Water has been all over the headlines lately, particular in The Monitor.
From Boulder selling bulk water to a posh ranch-resort in the Crazy Mountains to an East Helena subdivision that needs to find a new water source, and from the state refusing to grant East Helena water rights to the former ASARCO smelter lands to Clancy struggling to secure a reliable water source from more than a decade, there’s a great deal of ground to cover.
Thankfully, retired water rights attorney Stan Bradshaw – who literally wrote the “Buyer’s Guide to Montana’s Water Rights” – recently found the time to sit down with me to touch on all these topics as well as the history of water rights and how they’re shaped today.
