Missoula Measures – information and inspiration for a sustainable community

Greg Oliver, Missoula City-County Health Dept., 301 W. Alder, Missoula, Mt. 59802

Arriving online in October 1999, Missoula Measures is  an internet-based, Missoula County-specific information center, designed to assist efforts to maintain and build a healthy, sustainable community.  Initiated by local government, this online resource grew out of a set of community indicator reports produced in 1997-98 by the Health Department, Office of Planning and Grants,  and the City of Missoula.   Missoula Measures is a tool that reflects and integrates the ongoing work and thinking of hundreds of people, and makes this information strategically more available to others for various purposes.   Measures can be thought of in two ways: we measure what we value and we strive to take effective measures to work on what is important to us.  In addition, this tool works to link and serve clusters of  people with interests in particular Measures topics. A key goal is for the Measures to be used and useful.

Individual Measures topics are divided into three interrelated realms: environment, economy and social measures.   Several Measures are watershed-related.  There are currently more than 70 topics addressed. 

Measures Website: www.co.missoula.mt.us/measures/UrbanEnviro/index.htm