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Imagine example-setting future for Montana energy

June 23, 2016/

None of us could have imagined the future we have now, with both 500-employee mills vanished and a Missoula Osprey ballpark standing where the tepee burners were. Wood products’ percentage of the current economy is minuscule in our post-industrial Missoula.

Yet our population, standard of living and numberless amenities have jumped off the charts. Why? In large part because we ignored the naysayers and embraced a new, diverse and more sustainable economy.

JEFF SMITH

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/imagine-example-setting-future-for-montana-energy/article_a4191719-fb7a-500d-ad45-b7c1c2c090b0.html

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