Fremont County Economic Profile

Local economies throughout the rural West are in a state of flux.  Traditional natural resource
industries have seen much structural change in recent years, some caused by evolving
technology and some by new restrictions on the use of public lands that reflect changing
national values.  People living in rural communities can become bewildered by the pace of
change thrust upon them, and may be uncertain about the degree that national and regional
issues have affected their community, and unclear about the direction that their communities
seem to be heading.

This report is a written version of a presentation given to leaders and residents of Fremont
County in St. Anthony on November 28 and in Island Park on November 29, 2006, as part of a
Community Economic Profile Workshop. The workshop was an informal effort hosted by
Fremont County, BLM, and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest to lay a foundation of mutual
understanding of socio-economic conditions for developing a county economic development
strategy, for updating the county comprehensive plan, as well as to initiate a dialogue around
local economic development and the role public lands could play. A separate report details that
meeting.  

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