Montana is a perfect example of how the "environmental" movement serves to Third-World-ize certain sections of our country and to entrench the rich and powerful even more snugly.
Working farms, ranches, mines, mills--all closed. All having provided families with a healthy and prosperous life. Now many of these people work as serfs on the designer ranches of the Beautiful People when they come up to play cowboy for three months a year. The wives clean the toilets in the marble 20X20 bathrooms of the "ranch" houses.
The products they once provided to the nation and the world are now produced on corporate latafundia in the "third world".
I guess it's just kismet--as the peaceful mohammedans say....