Tap you are always asking great questions to get these threads going and I usually don't pipe up, this time I will. JB is right about the people thing, if you have the tall mountains, clear streams, you are not going to get away from encroachment, beauty sells, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have worked and ridden all over Idaho and Montana, been all over the West including Canada and have decided that I like where we are cause it is kinda in between. not the majestic peaks, pine covered hills, not the blue ribbon trout streams but lots of wildlife, but no tourists trying to make this paradise. Every place that I have been has it's own beauty, it's own good and it's own bad. It is an oxymoron. I grew up trailing cattle into the high mountains for the summer, valleys for the winter and thought that was the way to go. Now that place is so over run with wolves, tourists and environmentalists, and the valley subdivided into ranchettes, I can't stand to look at it. I like to look out here in the night sky and not see a single light, hear a single plane, hear a car or hear a train.
