Featured "Come Home Montana" Community~BIG TIMBER

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Community Assets Include:

* Sweet Grass County is truly where the plains become the Rockies! The Crazy Mountains and the Absaroka Beartooths surround us on three sides and the prairie lies to the east. Big Timber is the gateway to the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness and has some of the best blue ribbon trout fishing in the state. The Boulder River flows across 57 miles of Sweet Grass County, the West Boulder River flows across 9 miles, the East Boulder River flows 13 miles, and the Yellowstone River flows 51 miles across the county. These and the many additional miles of small streams provide fishing, camping, and recreation opportunities. Big Timber sits in the valley formed by the confluence of the Boulder River and the Yellowstone River. That allows for many types of professions and also provides tourists and residents with a variety of activities.

Opportunities:

* CREDITS: Sweet Grass County is known for magnificent scenery and western culture. Both have been captured by the entertainment industry in movies, documentaries, commercials, videos, and still shots filmed in the area. Movies such as A River Runs Through Itand The Horse Whispererdepicted some of the beauty of our area on to the big screen. The Discovery Channel brought Frontier House, Real Life, Under the Big Skyto television dramatizing Boulder Valley reality. The rifles seen in Tom Sellecks movie Quigley, Down Underand Cross Fire Trailwere manufactured by a Big Timber gunsmith. Numerous companies including Dodge, Ford, Mercedes, Pontiac, Remington Rifle, Sprint, and Wrangler have chosen Sweet Grass County as a location to shoot commercials.

* Big Timber boasts 286 days of sunshine each year.

Community Vision:

* Our vision is to continue enjoying small town pleasures while working diligently to provide secure jobs with fair wages and benefits enabling community stability for our hardworking people. Our challenge is to systematically encourage community economic development without sacrificing our down home western philosophy.

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