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A sign listing ranches and their distance from Route 200 in eastern Montana. Many of the cattle ranches and farms are dozens of miles away on dirt and gravel roads in the open rangeland of eastern Montana. (Photo by William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images)

A sign listing ranches and their distance from Route 200 in eastern Montana. Many of the cattle ranches and farms are dozens of miles away on dirt and gravel roads in the open rangeland of eastern Montana. (Photo by William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images)