Butte is a mining town that practices mining culture. To understand the current interrelationship between the environment, health, and culture in Butte, it is first necessary to understand the cultural foundations. Much like environmental remediation, community members practice acts of reclaiming history, landscape, and community. This remediation does not restore the environment to its original state but instead reclaims it to a level of risk deemed acceptable by the EPA. Environmental remediation occurs throughout the city, most notably at the operable units of the Butte Superfund sites. There are two types of remediation occurring in Butte: environmental and cultural.
Today, Butte is a post-industrial city that is the focal point of America's largest Superfund site as well as the nation's largest National Historic District. Butte is a small town in southwest Montana that was profoundly shaped by over a century of mining and smelting activities.
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