While some continue to trifle with land transfer schemes, many Montanans are already working together to find common ground and improve public land management. Organizations such as the Blackfoot-Clearwater Stewardship Project, the Elkhorn Working Group and numerous others have been coming together with state and federal resource management agencies — some for many years — to find ways to address issues and implement projects that contribute greatly to better management. These activities are apparently unknown to land transfer advocates, who cry about being helpless and having no local say in management decisions. Collaborative work is not easy and these groups struggle with many of the same roadblocks that have contributed to problems in the past. But complex problems rarely have easy solutions and the folks in local working groups and collaboratives have made the commitment to help with the heavy lifting and, in many cases, are realizing success.