BOZEMAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – From over 10,000 feet in the air, the Gallatin and Madison Ranges look almost like cresting waves, rising toward their peak but never breaking.

A light haze of wildfire smoke hung in the afternoon air, yet from the window of a Cessna, the two ranges, split by the Gallatin River’s canyon, stood out in sharp relief above the sea of Douglas firs, lodgepole pines and jagged rocky peaks.

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