News Channel 13 Online Posted: Tuesday, 02 March 2010 9:42PM Montana leases speak out against increased fees on their state lease lands.   “I was always taught a deal is a deal. And I think that they ought to stick with the original terms of the lease at least till the termination of that lease.” In [...]

By JIM MANN/The Daily Inter Lake Goto the InterLake Online to see reader comments there. By Brian Tanko’s judgment, the choices were only bad or worse, so he has decided to move his cabin off a leased lot of state land on McGregor Lake to avoid future costs and uncertainty. And he’s not alone. “I’m in [...]

By Dan Testa, 03-10-10 from The Flathead Beacon Brian Tanko will soon reluctantly undertake the unusual move of loading his McGregor Lake cabin onto a truck, driving it off his current lot and relocating it to a parcel not far from its former position. He’s not doing it to improve the view, but because the [...]

Here is a copy of the letter we sent to the land board and DNRC telling them of our intent to abandon our lease.

We mailed our Conditional Abandonment Notice on November 24, 2009.  We have Lot 17, Echo Lake.

Greetings Lease Holders: I want to call your attention to the new FAQs the DNRC has listed on their website – I’ve attached them. There are a few interesting new details, such as the fact that lessees will be given the option of keeping their current lease (and paying 5% of the 2009 DoR appraisal) [...]

I just talked with Gina and then Mike Sullivan at DNRC and asked how the abandonment process is designed to work. They said that DNRC is trying to work on some way to help leaseholders if/when they need to abandon the property and can’t sell it. Currently, according to Mike, if we can’t pay/abandon the [...]