Posted on: April 22nd, 2026

“Montana voters are increasingly concerned over access to public lands, and a vast majority – 84% — support banning the sale or transfer of public lands.
That’s according to the 2026 Voter Survey on Public Lands commissioned by the University of Montana’s Crown of the Continent and Greater Yellowstone Initiative and released on April 22. The biennial survey has tracked how residents think about public land and natural resource issues since 2014…
…The bipartisan survey was conducted by Republican pollster New Bridge Strategy and Democratic pollster FM3 Research…”