BIG TIMBER - After four decades with the U.S. Forest Service, Mary Erickson is used to working in the grey areas, places where land, history and public expectation don’t always align.

But few issues in her long career have matched the complexity or controversy of the Crazy Mountains land exchange.

Watch Erickson discuss the Crazies: One forest supervisor stakes her legacy in the Crazy Mountain land exchange

As part of our continuing series on the East Crazy Mountain Land Exchange, we’re hearing from the many voices at the center of this complicated debate. The proposed deal has sparked deep divisions over questions of public access, private property rights, and the future of the Crazy Mountain range itself. Through these stories, we aim to give you a fuller picture of the stakes and t

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