Study objectives were to: describe existing government and health care services in 6 selected counties of eastern Montana; identify the demographic, geographic, and social characteristics affecting rural social service delivery systems; and suggest policy and organizational alternatives. County knowledgables were surveyed to determine the type and…

Space, in a geographic sense, entails costs when there is too much of it in relation to population and income. In the West, by comparison with more populous areas to the east, the level of personal income per square mile and per capita is low; costs per unit of, and per capita for, transportation, health and medical care, and education are high;…