LIVINGSTON — Stakeholders took to the skies Wednesday and Thursday from Livingston’s Mission Field to survey the 18-hole golf course on the 112-acre Crazy Mountain Ranch golf course.

The Clyde Park-area course remains at the center of a heated debate over water rights, land use and community transparency. The tours in a 1978 Cessna Turbo 210 offered a bird’s-eye view of a development stirring strong feelings on the ground.

Lone Mountain Land Company, owner of CMR and a subsidiary of the exclusive Big Sky Yellowstone Club’s parent organization, voluntarily halted natural irrigation of the CMR golf course from Rock Creek and Rock Lake on July 10. The shutoff occurred a day before the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation filed a lawsuit and cease-and-desist order mandati

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