Jordan Hansen

(Daily Montanan) The state of Montana has reached an agreement with an exclusive golf club for water usage, after the club was found to be illegally diverting water for its course and trucking in water from nearby communities.

The Department of Natural Resources and Conservation reached an agreement late last month with how Crazy Mountain Ranch was using water.

The state filed suit against Crazy Mountain Ranch , a Delaware corporation that owns 18,000 acres near Big Timber, in mid-July over an irrigation system it was using for its golf course. The company is a subsidiary of the Yellowstone Club’s parent organization, CrossHarbor Capital Partners. The resort did not have the proper water rights to divert from Rock Creek for irrigation of its golf course.

The agreement,

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