Montana's landscape beguiles as it unfolds. The kind of sheer beauty that could stop traffic if there were traffic to stop. The scale is hard to exaggerate.It's a state roughly the size of California with roughly the population of greater Fresno just north of 1 million. Montanants speak fondly of their neighbors who might live 50 m away. As for the land itself, it's not mere real estate.It's there for recreation, a corridor for wildlife. It's symbolic, too. The open frontier is an emblem of freedom and poss ...