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Survey: Montanans saw this summer’s visitors as less polite

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Hilary Hutcheson, a longtime flyfishing guide and flyshop owner in Columbia Falls, said she and her staff were inundated this summer with tourists who had never really experienced the outdoors before.

“A lot of not just first-time anglers, but first-time campers, first-time taking a family vacation to a national park,” she recalled. “This is anecdotal-based, but it seemed like Montana was their third choice after going to Disneyland or going to Europe. They had a big different trip planned and ‘see the USA in a Chevrolet’ wasn’t their first choice. But because of COVID that’s what they ended up doing.”

DAVID ERICKSON

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