In Yellowstone alone, statistics compiled by environmental groups show, snowmobiles make an estimated 85,000 trips into the park, in an activity that has proven lucrative for communities just outside the boundary.
Campaigners claim, for example, that the film production company has offered young men in the community lucrative "bribes" to work as extras.
Indeed, tourism is far more lucrative to mountain communities than mining.
Often for-profit services, they are also the hedge funds of the health care community: potentially lucrative, largely unregulated, producing bad results as often as good.
David Levine, the chief executive of Butterfly.net, a three-year-old company in Martinsburg, W.Va., that makes technology for multiplayer online games, had an even more lucrative relationship with a community development venture capital firm.
"I intend to reach out to neighboring councils to find lucrative opportunities for our community".
In recent years, bigger airlines have expanded their hub-and-spoke systems by adding partnerships with commuter lines like Great Lakes Aviation and Air Wisconsin that had developed a lucrative business serving smaller communities.
Although the Olympic Games have typically been the most lucrative event for this rogue community, Sydney is turning out to be a disappointment.
Mr. Krasinski, the "Office" star, and Mr. Damon went on to produce and write the film, about what happens when a small community faces a lucrative offer involving fracking, as the oil-drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing is known.
