The 4,000: How Montana’s Land Consolidation Creates the Last Small-Investor Edge-Before the Window Closes
Montana’s 60 million private acres are an illusion of abundance. Just 4,000 owners control two-thirds of that land, and 13 mega-holders alone have locked up 9 million acres in perpetual family and entity structures designed never to sell; and I mean never. Meanwhile, sophisticated capital is flooding in—LLC ownership has surged from 3% to 16% […]







