2007 Report Card
The 2007 Colorado College State of the Rockies Report Card
As quickly as the Rockies Project addresses one set of challenges to the eight-state region, new issues appear on the horizon. For the 2007 Report Card such challenges include forest health and the importance of fire mitigation and disease in this region, energy development impacts on Rockies' communities and infrastructure, water use in the Rockies and the growing need for agriculture to urban water transfers, and trends in new communities, including "new urbanism".
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Table of Contents
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
Challenge Essay - How the West is Wired: Broadband Connectivity in the West
Faculty Overview - The Healthy Forests Restoration Act
Forest Health in the Rockies: Human Needs and Ecological Reality
Energy Development in the Rockies: Tempering the Boom, Avoiding the Bust
The Growing Rockies: New People, New Communities New Urbanism
Feeding from the Federal Trough: Patterns of Federal Government Expenditure Around the Rockies
Methods, Additional Acknowledgements, and State of the Rockies Contributors