Montana Economic Development

Great Northern Development
Corporation is pleased to announce
that Glasgow, Montana has been
selected as the 2008 SBA Small
Business Community of the Year.

Three Day Tour to Big Timber, Columbus, Glendive, Wolf Point & Havre

Columbia Falls is well represented in a new National Geographic Geotourism Map of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem.

You are cordially invited to attend the 2008 New Frontiers Conference: Propelling Montana Research June 2 in Bozeman, MT. Join me as I welcome university researchers, entrepreneurs, investors and national corporations in this one day showcase of Montana Research.

”For tribal governments and individual Indians who have large land holdings, this could become a very real economic market,” said Ted Dodge, executive director of the National Carbon Offset Coalition. The group, which focuses on the sale of carbon credits via a non-federal trade program, has worked with a handful of tribes on monetizing their carbon collection portfolios.

Eligible applicants may seek loan guarantees to cover up to 50 percent of a project’s cost, not to exceed $10 million. Grants are available for up to 25 percent of a project’s cost, not to exceed $250,000 for energy efficiency improvements and $500,000 for renewable energy systems.

“The specific concept is to help a particular region-such as Lincoln County-assess where future occupations and industries are going and how to get there,” said Ingrid Childress, an administrator in Helena at the Department of Labor.

Learn what is new in your region with the statewide Montana BEAR Program.

"I think Montana has been discovered," he said. "Montana is being looked upon as a lower cost state to do business in."

"Malta, Montana will be all over the place in that exhibit," said Sue Frary, who is working with the Houston museum and the nonprofit group organizing exhibits for Malta’s new Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station.