TERRY — The landman who knocked on Rolane Christofferson’s door in 2018 didn’t have to give her a hard sell on the compatibility of wind farms and cattle, or how she would adapt to hosting a structure on her property taller than Montana’s tallest building, the 20-story First Interstate Bank Center in Billings.

Christofferson’s challenges cast longer shadows. The bills for her mother’s stay at Prairie Community Nursing Home were piling up. To cover those costs, Christofferson and her siblings had to sell some of the land her Czechoslovakian grandfather had settled in 1906.

“The reason we signed the lease was mainly to cover the hospital bill, because we didn’t know at the time how long she would be there,” Christofferson said. “At $6,000 or $7,000 a month, it doesn’t take very long to ru

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