A conflict in Montana's richest valley has pitted out-of-state landowners against local hunters and anglers. (via outdoorlife)
The Cohodes property boundary spanned both River Road and the Gallatin River and included a few acres across the river. Gallatin County has owned an easement on River Road since 1892, creating a 60-foot-wide public strip on the property where anyone can walk, drive, or park. Similarly, everything below the high-water mark of the Gallatin River—water, riverbed, and bank—is public property.
Many locals continued using the access point, walking around the fences and even ripping them out of the ground. “No Trespassing” signs started disappearing from their posts.
A detailed map from September 2021 shows where the county road and the river’s high-water mark do and don’t overlap. But this map wasn’t exactly made available to the recreating masses. It was buried in an application for a fence-building permit that the Cohodeses filed with the Gallatin Conservation District. So while the public continued to believe that the old, worn path on the riverbank was a point of public access, the Cohodeses got the green light to complete the fencing project.
Changing the status quo has proven difficult for the Cohodeses. Their efforts have seemingly deterred some users from accessing the river, but others carry on without batting an eye. The Cohodes’ property has since been split among multiple new landowners. This change in ownership was not reflected onor popular digital mapping app onX at the time of publication. With new owners, there’s hope that the dispute will dissolve over time.
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