RBC I Suzy Foss became a Ravalli County, Mont., commissioner during the 2010 Tea Party wave.
Sixty-five years of age with a Sarah Palin vibe—stylish glasses, brown hair and bangs—Foss raises Arabian horses and border collies on a ranch abutting the Bitterroot National Forest, which takes up three-quarters of the county.
Foss blames the federal government for the post-’90s local decline of timber sales and grazing permits as well as the rise of wildfires and…