[Chad C. Mulligan]

The ski resorts and golf courses will still get all they want.

nb. This is why I declined an invitation to move to Idaho when I retired. They fight blood feuds over water, and the rich Californians always win. I chose Ohio, where water is a nuisance that farmers pay good money to get rid of so the crops won’t drown.

[Sequoyah101]

I conversed with a fellow up on the south end of Flathead Lake that was being squeezed out by the Flathead Tribe over water rights on his small property. He ended up leaving.

You are correct, water is blood and life in the West and people will fight over it to the death. I looked at some retirement places in the Bitterroot Valley south of Missoula less than 10 years ago when they were relatively cheap and stayed on the market for a long time. A place with a little ditch that has water rights is golden.

Considering what has happened up there since covid I'm mostly happy I stayed where I am. People are loving the area to death and they will run out of water. Never mind how much property taxes have gone up.