This is a three-part commentary. Yesterday, I wrote on restoring natural alliances and today focuses on the grand solution. Assuming politicians can open their minds to solve the wilderness problem and assuming conservationists can unify natural allies into a cohesive constituency, here is my proposed idea for finally putting the Montana wilderness debate behind us. With the exception of the already designated wilderness study areas, conservationists should accept that future so-called “Big W Wilderness” designated under the 1964 Wilderness Act is off the table. Instead, we need to ask our congressional leaders for a new legislative solution that I will call “Backcountry.” This new designation will be less restrictive that Big W Wilderness and will allow all forms of non-motorized, muscle-powered recreation, but not roads or motorized use. It then becomes a simple two-step process that could be combined into to one piece of legislation.