Census Bureau’s Rockies Division (Map 1). In demographic terms the eight states embracing the Rockies form the U.S. In places the system is 300 or more miles wide. It is a distance of some 3,000 miles (4,800 km). Geographers describe it as a mountain range forming the cordilleran backbone of the great upland system that dominates the western North American continent. The Rocky Mountains or “Rockies” as a geographical feature has integrity as a physiographic region connected by its Continental Divide spine running along its mountainous crest from the Canadian border in the north to Mexico in the south. It is a future that continues to be grounded in nature and resources even as the extraction phase gives way to a natural amenity phase in the region’s economy and quality of life. An understanding of the role nature and resources play is central to preparing for the future of the Rockies region. Thus, regional concepts and perspectives are vital to understanding how natural resources serve as a foundation for economy and quality of life. And yet prior human development and current uses largely conform to natural patterns of land, water, air, flora and fauna: all more intertwined and fragile than residents largely understand and support. Decades of European settlement, coming on top of centuries of indigenous Native American habitation, have transformed the ways humans use the region’s landscape. The eight-state Rockies region is world-renowned for spectacular scenery, environment, and recreation. He founded and served for a decade as faculty advisor to the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project, supervising over 45 research studies on the eight-state Rockies region in demographics, energy, land management, climate change, and amenity economies. Military Academy Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Agency for International Development Southern African Development Coordination Conference U.S. Professor Hecox has managed and performed research for the Grand Canyon Trust Colorado Department of Natural Resources Executive Director’s Office U.S. He is also Senior Program Advisor, El Pomar Foundation’s Pikes Peak Recreation and Tourism Heritage Series. Hecox, who received his PhD from Syracuse University (1969), is Professor Emeritus of Economics in the Environmental Program, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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