After two days of listening, a resource team Wednesday night presented a long list of what people in Havre and Hill County want to see. The hundreds of ideas ranged from high-profile proposals like widening U.S. Highway 2 to four lanes and building a mulitpurpose center to house major events in Havre to suggestions like building a meat-processing plant and keeping border crossings open 24 hours a day.

With so many projects, "the folks at Bear Paw Development and the Chamber are going to be tired," team member Brent Poppe, a bureau chief with the Montana Department of Agriculture, said at a...