BILLINGS — The Crazy Mountain Ranch is pushing back against state regulators who say the property violated a court order tied to watering its private golf course in the Crazy Mountains.

The Crazy Mountain Ranch filed a motion in October asking a Park County court to find the ranch not in violation of a consent decree and to block the imposition of $8,000 in penalties, doing so after officials say they received a letter from the DNRC.

The DNRC alleges the ranch used water that wasn’t legally authorized for sale under the Montana Water Use Act . The water came from the city of Boulder, which sold roughly 100,000 gallons to the ranch in mid-August, using a well, later determined not to be covered by municipal water rights.

In new court filings, Crazy Mountain Ranch, owned by Lone Mount

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