“The Rocky Mountain region has fascinated me ever since I traveled to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks as a teenager, and saw for the first time such wonderful birds as ospreys, American dippers, and Lew­is’s woodpeckers.” This book is in part based on the author’s earlier Birds of the Rocky M

Repeat photography is a field method to study landscape change over time, yet most studies use a single pair of photographs spanning upwards of a century or more to ascertain change. In this study, I used repeat photography to study vegetation change across high-elevation environments within the San

Terrestrial snow is an important freshwater reservoir with significant influence on the climate and energy balance. It exhibits natural spatiotemporal variability which has been enhanced by climate change, thus it is important to monitor on a large scale. Active microwave, or radar remote sensing ha

Sequence-stratigraphic study of the Cozzette and the Rollins Sandstone members, of the Mt. Garfield Formation of the Mesaverde Group, in the southern part of the Piceance basin (western Colorado), utilizes mainly well-log data along with limited outcrop data. Outcrop description of the Rollins Sands

The state of Colorado has 22.49 million acres of forestland, a growing proportion of which is under threat from disease, insects, drought and wildfire. The severity of these threats originates from a long history of misguided forest management practices that have decreased the overall health of Colo

This thesis explores two institutional frameworks utilized in the governance of water in the Southwest of the United States through how they deliver, or fail to deliver, complex equity. These are (1) the legal framework and (2) cooperative agreements. This is done through a case study in the Roaring

There are two types of cavity nesting birds: excavators and non-excavators. In the aspen (Populus tremuloides) woodlands of Colorado, the red-naped sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) is the predominant primary cavity nester. Sapsuckers excavate new holes each year in trees infected with the heartwood

Secondo l’U.S. Census Bureau, il 50% della popolazione degli Stati Uniti viveva in aree suburbane nel 2000. Stando ai dati del censimento 2010, questa quota è ulteriormente cresciuta, passando al 58%. Un aumento enorme, se pensiamo che negli anni ’20 del xx secolo questa quota era attorno al 15%. N