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All electronic sections of the Report Card are in Adobe PDF format. You will need the free Adobe Reader software to view them, available here.

Previous Report Cards:

• 2006 Report Card
• 2005 Report Card
• 2004 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".

Printed copies of the 2007 Report Card available at the CC Bookstore: order online

View an Electronic Version of the 2007 State of the Rockies Report Card (PDFs):

• Entire 2007 Report Card (50 MB - may take a few minutes to load)
  
  
• An Introduction from the President - The Colorado College State of the Rockies Project: Research, Report, Engage!
  
  
• 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 - Democrats and their Rocky Mountain High (Hopes): A Close Look at Party Voting Patterns in the Eight-State Rocky Mountain West
  
  
• Challenge Essay - How the West is Wired: Broadband Connectivity in the West
  
  
• Water Sustainability in the Rockies: Agriculture to Urban Transfers and Implications for Future Water Use
  
  
• 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