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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Which is strange because if you cross the border at Coots and compare the land immediately on either side, Canada has many farms and ranches while the American side looks like a desert. Just something I noticed earlier this summer.
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I think that has to do with water rights. IIRC there was a treaty signed and Alberta gets to use the Milk River and Montana gets to use the St. Mary's. My uncle is a farmer on the Montana side (though much further east of Coutts) and he complains about this all the time.