Zortman Community Input
Economic Development (private business)
- Marketing to promote recreational opportunities (landscape & wildlife, ATV trails, campgrounds, hunting & fishing, gold panning)
- Services to support hunting and tourism (mapping, maintenance, trail safety)
- Develop year-round employment options
- Develop housing (limited by public lands surrounding town)
Housing
- Housing development is limited by public lands, flood plain
- Weatherization program
- Retrofit program to improve energy efficiency
- Develop new rentals
Infrastructure
- BLM should improve fire access, signage, and gates on some roads
- Improve maintenance of local roads (gravel, paving)
- Improve cell phone and Internet service
- Improve sewer system (now all septic tanks)
- Attract younger firefighters
Recreation & Parks
- 4thof July Celebration, ATV trails, horse-back riding, gold panning, camping, birding, hiking, hunting, fishing
- Requires trail and road maintenance, ambulance service, law enforcement
- Support through marketing, signs, trail maintenance, safety brochures, maps, history kiosks
- Develop recreational access to Azure cave
Environment
- Reclamation is ongoing at the mine
- Open some state lands to recreational access and housing development
- Develop access road
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