A sharp-eyed observer might notice small, dense clusters of trees in the middle of open fields in the Bighorn Mountains. These islands of subalpine firs… Wendy Johnson was driving through Granite Pass in the Bighorn Mountains when she noticed something beautiful and inexplicable. “They were clusters of conifers, like an island in a sea of grass,” the Billings, Montana, woman told Cowboy State Daily. “... [6492 chars]