About Us
We started the United Property Owners of Montana as a last resort in our fight against those who are seeking to take away our property rights. Like most Montana family farming operations, we’d prefer to focus on making a living at agriculture, but economic pressures have forced us, and a lot of our neighbors, to diversify in one form or another. We’re proud to have our roots in Montana, and through UPOM we’re seeing to it that our children’s children will have their roots here too.
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Mark & Deanna Robbins
Mark and Deanna Robbins both grew up in Central Montana. They are third generation Montanans whose family homesteaded in northeast Fergus County in 1917. They live near Roy, where they run a cow/calf operation and a big game outfitting business. Mark and Deanna have been married 28 years, and have two sons. Liam, 24, is a University of Montana graduate and currently in Veterinary School at the University of California, Davis. Lance, 22, is a senior at the University of Montana studying pre-med.
Mark holds a degree in Business Management from Eastern Montana College. He has been a trustee of the local telephone cooperative since 1989, is Treasurer of the Roy Stockyards Association, and is a past Farm Bureau county board member and school board member. Deanna spent several years working in banking and as an office manager, and is an active partner in the cattle and outfitting businesses. She is a member of the Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 4 Citizen Advisory Committee. They are members of Stockgrowers, Farm Bureau, United States Cattlemen's Association, Montana Outfitters and Guides Association, and St. Aloysius Catholic Church.
Toby & Jody Dahl
Toby Dahl, a fifth generation rancher, married Jody, a former teacher, in 1998. They are raising the sixth generation (Brigem age 7 and Colton age 1) on the family ranch outside of Roundup. Together they have diversified the family cattle ranch into a working guest ranch (Runamuk Guest Ranch) and offer hunting services in the fall.
Toby and Jody host a benefit trail ride each summer with the proceeds going to the Chase Hawks Memorial Association, families facing crisis. They also raise speed-bred quarter horses.
Believing in the motto "sustainability through holistic diversification", they are working toward building a ranch that will help nurture the ecological value of the land until the next generation is ready to run Runamuk.
Don Proue
Don Proue has spent his life in central and eastern Montana. He and his wife Betty have been married 36 years. They have two grown children, Brandon and Jenny. Brandon graduated from Western Montana College in Dillon with a degree in Elementary Education and now teaches in Big Timber where he lives with his wife Kelsey. Jenny also attended Western Montana College and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Communications. She currently resides in Huntley along with her husband, Denver Gilbert, and daughter Molly Jo.
Don and Betty currently lease a ranch in the Bull Mountains, southeast of Roundup, and run a yearling cattle operation. They also own and operate Betty’s family homestead, a farm and ranch operation at Jordan.
Don has been an active member of the Musselshell Valley Stockgrower’s Association, and is a former Secretary/Treasurer for that organization. He is also a former state director for the Montana High School Rodeo Association.
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