This story was updated on July 24 at 10:27 a.m. to make clarifications regarding senior and junior water rights, and to correct that the main stem of the Blackfoot River has been placed under a hoot owl restriction, not the north fork.
Like many other people who make or have made their living working the land, Denny Iverson saw this year’s drought coming.
The winter was drier than normal in Montana and the snowpack didn’t build up well. On top of that, it was an El Niño year, which from decades of experience Iverson knows to mean drought in the Potomac Valley, where the Iverson Family Ranch is...
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