A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.

Perhaps nowhere in the country is the fight over public lands — and the big-moneyed interests pulling the strings — more on display right now than in Montana’s Crazy Mountains.

“This is a really simple issue,” said Andrew Posewitz, a Montana public lands advocate and the son of a renowned conservationist. “The public had some really good land and some really good access in the Crazy Mountains. Some really rich people decided they liked the Crazy Mountains a lot … And now the public doesn’t have that access.”

Every American — not just Montanans — should care, he warned.

“Because it is very much a harbinger of potentially what could come.