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Matt Hildreth

Matt Hildreth is the Executive Director of RuralOrganizing.org. He grew up on a small farm in eastern South Dakota and is a graduate of Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota where he studied Philosophy and Communications. He earned a Master’s Degree in Strategic Communication from the University of Iowa and holds an Executive Education Certificate from Harvard University’s Leadership, Organizing and Action program.

Opinion: Finally, some good news for small towns and rural communities

While often missed by the traditional media, there is a growing group of us in rural America who refuse to let our communities die without a fight. And after two long years, we've just had our first billion-dollar breakthrough.

National Parks Bring Billions of Dollars To Small Town and Rural Economies

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Historic flooding in Yellowstone is a preview of what’s to come at our country’s national parks

Over thousands of years, Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was shaped by one of the most dangerous and powerful...

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