STATE OF THE ROCKIES

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Previous Report Cards:

• 2005 Report Card
• 2004 Report Card

The 2006 State of the Rockies Report Card continues the Rockies Project tradition of reporting key issues in this unique region of spectacular natural beauty, cultural wealth, abundant resources, and fragile environment. In these pages you will find analysis and discussion of some key issues that confront the Rockies: biodiversity, ranch economics, climate change, land conservation, and child development.

View an Electronic Version of the 2006 State of the Rockies Report Card (PDFs):

• Entire 2006 Report Card (22 MB)
  
  
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• President's Introduction
• Colorado College, The Rocky Mountain West, and The State of the Rockies Project
• Editors' Preface and Executive Summary
  
  
• Rockies Baseline: Vital Signs for a Region in Transition
• A Common Western Voice: Can the Rockies Be Heard in Washington, D.C.?
• Ranching in the Rockies: Threats and Signs of Hope
• Conservation Easements: Preserving Private Land in the Rockies
• New Resource Management: Innovative Approaches in the Rockies
• Experiments in Managing the Federal Estate: The Case of the Valles Caldera
• Biodiversity: a Coat of Many Colors
• The Invasion of Our Rockies: Hype or Management Priority
• Myths Versus Realities Concerning Threatened and Endangered Species in the Rockies
• The Endangered Species Act of 1973: An Overview
• Preserving Biodiversity: Mapping Habitat Threat in the Rockies
• Fragmenting the Western American Landscape
• Regional Challenges of Future Climate Change
• Climate Change: Modeling a Warmer Rockies and Assessing the Implications
• Environmental Justice: Income, Race, Ethnicity and Toxic Pollution in the Rockies Metro Areas
• Grading the Rockies: Nurturing the Youth - REVISED April 14, 2006
  
  
• Methods, Additional Acknowledgements, and Contributors' Biographies