Heard Around the West

MONTANA

. Scott Fitzgerald famously observed that “the very rich … are different than you and me.” He didn’t add that it’s because some of them own helicopters, but apparently helicopters do make their owners feel special, perhaps even entitled to break a few laws. Two friends riding horses through Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness recently were surprised to find a couple fishing close to a helicopter that was conveniently parked on a sandbar.. “The conversation became heated,” according to John, and the helicopter couple “thought it best to leave.” Helicopter owners Sam Schwerin and his wife, Sara, who is on the advisory board of Montana State University, later had a public-relations firm release a statement about the incident, which the Forest Service says is under investigation. The statement said the Bozeman couple thought they’d landed outside the wilderness and not on the South Fork of the Flathead.