Yes, part of the bullshit mythology of Montana is that we here living close to ‘nature’ somehow have a deep understanding and respect for it. We don’t. Most of us are bone ignorant about what makes living ecosystems and have no sense at all about preserving what is left of them after centuries of wholesale exploitation and ruin for money. It goes with the bogus claim that ranchers and farmers are “the first environmentalists”. They are nothing of the kind; they are destroyers of it.