Brothers plan to open Bullwhacker

Staff and wire report

Access to 50,000 acres of federal land in the Upper Missouri River Breaks in north-central Montana soon will be reopened to the public.

Dan and Farris Wilks announced in a press release that Bullwhacker Road in Blaine County, located on the Anchor Ranch owned by the brothers, will be opened from Sept. 1 through Jan. 1.

A 2011 court ruling in favor of the previous owners of the ranch kept the road closed to public access.

In a show of goodwill to Montana hunters and the Bureau of Land Management, Farris Wilks said in last week’s press release that the road will be...