And that deal was tater tots compared to what Schweitzer pulled off. The Spotted Skunk ranch was only worth about 5 million max as a ranch, yet 15.2 million (or maybe .6) went to buy it, from the Superfund pool.
The net effect was to take Spotted Dog off the trophy market and leave Rock Creek all alone in the Deer Lodge top-end market, while bailing the Yanke (R-Y) clan out from under land it had bought to log, and then sell off for the suddenly-dead-meat trophy market.
So now there's a new GMA, and the additional hunting :opportunity" comes at a cost of $1,600 per additional hunter DAY. Not elk shot, HUNTER DAY. Never mind the sudden new plan to put bison on there.
Schweitzer is orders of magnitude past Martz. He didn't benefit directly, but you can bet he was considering his fundraising future.
