As I write these words, a bus load of demonstrators is wending its way up the valley from Zurich.

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It's early evening in the Bitterroot Valley, and the sun's rays mingle with plumes of smoke rising from the mountains as firefighters load up their trucks before heading out for the overnight shift.

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