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"The Cowboy Boot" Changing the Face of Montana’s Economy?

November 22, 2006 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Montana’s economy and its workforce have been linked to industries related to natural resource extraction and refinement for over one hundred years. This has started to change recently for some areas of the state though, and led Governor Schweitzer to identify a set of counties he calls the "Cowboy Boot."

by Tyler Turner, Economist

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