You think egg prices are bad now? Be glad you didn't live in 1860s Montana, where the cost for essentials like meat, flour, and eggs were ridiculously expensive.
Twice a year, a large, white cross is visible from I-90 between Laurel and Park City, MT. Sitting atop Square Butte, the current cross has a vastly different meaning than it did in 1925, when at least one Ku Klux Klan meeting was held on the plateau.
Firefighters spent the morning wrapping the old McCart fire lookout station in the Bitterroot National Forest with what looks like tin foil (it's not). The Johnson Ridge fire appears to be approaching the structure from the south.