In autumn, that mournful season that stifles the lighthearted sounds of summer, larch turn golden and, against the Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine, light up the Seeley-Swan Valley like a votive-filled cathedral in Rome.

It’s something to behold as you stand in awe of the magic wand of nature, whose invisible hand has crafted an infrastructure that rapacious people want to market to a public hungry for natural experiences touted by Hollywood.

At Holland Lake, we’re seeing a docudrama (like TV’s Yellowstone) play out with the U.S. Forest Service and Utah-based ski giant POWDR proposing t...