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Beartooth Highway supporters turn to UM for economic study

November 16, 2011 /

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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.

Friends of the Beartooth All American Road http://www.beartoothhighway.com/ has asked a University of Montana research group to conduct a study of the economic benefits the highway brings to surrounding communities.

To get there, Friends of the Beartooth, a nonprofit group that works to showcase the highway’s offerings and the communities along the way, must first raise nearly $160,000 to pay for the study.

The group will be asking travel and business leaders in Red Lodge, Cooke City and Cody to help foot the costs.

By MARTIN KIDSTON Gazette Wyoming Bureau

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