Oil and gas leasing system is holding Montana back

For the last several years, the Bureau of Land Management has been holding a near perpetual fire sale of public lands in Montana, selling out hundreds of thousands of acres to the lowest bidders.

Our broken oil and gas leasing system has not been updated in decades, and it’s holding Montana back, depriving us of what we need to create more jobs in the biggest sector of our economy and protect public lands from mismanagement and neglect...