rural economic development

About 1 in 3 Americans thinks global warming is a growing problem, but that sentiment isn’t as strong in some less urban Mountain West states, such as Wyoming and Utah.

The Wind River Development Fund received a $36 million grant to fund economic growth and strengthen Indigenous sovereignty on the Wind River Reservation.

For the last seven years, Shoshone and Arapaho Fish and Game Director Arthur Lawson has been working to create more economic development and ecotourism on the Wind River Reservation through a bit of an unexpected avenue: fly fishing. Those efforts are the subject of a series of short films that will play at the Center for the Arts in Jackson on June 4.

How can technology help address the challenges facing a rural state like Wyoming? This year’s Wyoming Global Technology Summit is bringing entrepreneurs, business founders, policymakers, educators, and leaders together in the Tetons to talk solutions with a focus on leveraging technology for rural growth.

Community development experts in Utah have published a step-by-step guide to help rural communities attract private investment.

This year the Biden Administration rolled out the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (NEVI) to make electric vehicles more commonplace. But for rural places in Wyoming it might be hard to get chargers in places nowhere near an interstate.

As Wyoming’s top industry of coal mining declines, the state is looking to diversify its economy, including industries like outdoor recreation tourism.

The town of Shoshoni explores more housing options as need increases.

The affordable housing crisis is usually understood as a problem in the Mountain West's cities and resort towns. But it's also happening in rural areas with booming economies.

In Pinedale, affordable housing is becoming a rarity, and town officials are exploring what they can do to curb skyrocketing real estate prices.