In Re the General Adjudication of All Rights to Use Water in the Big Horn River System

KITE, Justice.

[¶ 1] John Max Stutzman and Roberta Lee Stutzman, individual irrigators within the Shoshone Reclamation Project, claimed rights to use a proportionate share of the water stored in the Buffalo Bill Reservoir, which is owned and operated by the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and sought to have those rights adjudicated in the Big Horn River general adjudication. We hold the district court properly dismissed the Stutzmans’ claims as untimely.

ISSUES

[¶2] The Stutzmans present the following issues:

1. Whether the Petition for Intervention requests an adjudication of contract claims or…