O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West Dec. 2008 Newsletter

This is another of our newsletters reporting on work at the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West. http://www.crmw.org This is an abbreviated newsletter with less information on all of the activities of the Center’s senior staff.

We did want to pass on our regular features regarding key trends in the region and stories from the region’s past. We know that this is a time of growing economic uncertainty and anxiety for many of you, but we hope that you can take solace in the fact that much of our region is holding up relatively well under these stresses and strains. In this period of rising unemployment, many communities in our region have among the lowest unemployment rates in the land. The Rocky Mountain West continues to have more people moving to it than the numbers moving away and has one of the strongest economies in the nation.

Bill Farr provides a brief story about the first park ranger in what was to become Glacier National Park. And Shellie Nelson, editor of the Center’s Headwaters News, briefly profiles trends in wind energy development in the region.

Please have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

From all of us at the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, The University of Montana

Full Newsletter: http://www.crmw.org/Newsletter/December2008.htm