Drawing on the class readings, discuss and analyze the contrast between what you think the American West will look like in 2040 and what you think it should like in 2040. Can the West collectively manage its land, water, resources, recreation and wilderness areas, and its diverse people in order to protect the very things that make it a unique American region and regional culture? How do the current contradictions facing the American West help limit and shape its future? Do you think in the next thirty-odd years that citizens of the American West can resolve some of these contradictions and "create a society to match the scenery”?

Western Futures: 2000-2040

• Center of the American West: Western Futures
  
  
• State of the Rockies Report 2008
  
  
• Rockies Baseline: Vital Signs for a Region
  in Transition
  
  
• Marston, The American West's Future (in-class)
  
  
• Mining Claims are Up in Colorado in 2008
  
  
• Overview of Western Futures (Maps)
  
  
• Introduction to Western Futures Study (in-class)
  
  
• Western Futures: Business as Usual (in-class)
  
  
• The Future of the Colorado Front Range Area
  
  
• Bust as the Most Effective Growth Control (in-class)
  
  
• Knowing when a Bust has Begun
  
  
• The New West and the Overproduction
  of Resorts
  
  
• Center for the American West:
  Boom and Bust in the West Report
  
  
• Contradictions facing the American West
  
  
• Contradictions of the West as Frontier
  
  
• Recent Actions that Demonstrate the
  Contradictions in the West (in-class)
  
  
• Characteristics of the West as Place
  
  
• The Challenge of the Arid West
  
  
• Growth Data Sheet in the West: 1960-2040
  
  
• Sierra Club: Stop Sprawl (in-class)
  
  
• Definitions of Smart Growth (in-class)
  
  
• Qualities of a Sustainable West (in-class)
  
  
• Thinking West: Coaltion of Western
  Academic Centers
  
  
• Enlibra: A Doctrine for Managing the West
  
  
• WGA: Principles for Environmental
  Management in the West: Enlibra (in-class)
  
  
• WGA:Enlibra FAQs (in-class)
  
  
• WGA: Water Needs and Strategies for
  a Sustainable Future
  
  
• Ten Water Laws of the West (in-class)
  
  
• WGA: Clean Energy, A Strong Economy,
  and a Healthy Environment
  
  
• Fueling the Fire: Global Warming, Fossil
  Fuels, and the Fish and Wildlife of the
  American West
  
  
• Immigrants account for Half of New Workers
  
  
• A Jobless Recovery: Immigrant Gains and
  Native Losses
  
  
• Map of the American West today
  
  
• Topographical Map of the West
  
  
• Population per square mile in the West
  by county
  
  
• Annual growth rate by county in the West,
  1990-1995
  
  
• Growth rate by State in the American West
  1990-2000
  
  
• Annual rainfall in the West
  
  
• Water use for Agriculture and Towns
  and Industry
  
  
• Potential Indian Water use in the West
  if the Winters Doctrine was fully enforced
  
  
• The Klamath River Dispute
  
  
• What's a River For? The Klamath
  River Dispute
  
  
• Readings on the Klamath River
  Conflict
  
  
• Toxic Waste Sites in the West
  
  
• Percent of Government Land in the West
  by State
  
  
• Federal Lands and Indian Reservations
  in the West

 

 

 

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