Western Voices
Spring 2007
Click the links below to read more of the articles from the Center's Spring 2007 newsletter.
A Letter from Patty
Faculty Director and Chair of the Board
For decades, the West has been a very urbanized region, with its population concentrated in cities and suburbs. And yet its image in popoular thinking - and certainly in Western movies, paintings, novels, and memoirs - remains very, very rural... Read more
Patty Limerick Protects the Environment
Robert E. Reoberts, Regional Administrator
USEPA Region VIII, Denver, Colorado
Patty Limerick spoke to the senior leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, on January 30. Included in the audience were Stephen Johnson, EPA Adnimistrator; Marcus Peacock, EPA Deputy Administrator; and some seventyfive senior political and career EPA officials... Read more
Richard Sellars Delivers the Inaugural Randy Jones Lecture
Past, Perfect? Preservation in the National Park System
By Kurt Gutjahr
Richard Sellars, a historian with the national Park Service and the author of Preserving Nature in the national Parks: A History, delivered the first in The Randy Jones Memorial Lecture Series. This series was created by the Center of the American West, in collaboration with Rocky Mountain National Park... Read more
Turning Hindsight Into Foresight
Using History as a Guide
By Elaine Tucci
Patty and I recently attended the university of Utah Law School's Stegner Center Symposium on the seven-state Colorado River Compact, which spawned the complex set of laws, treaties, cases, regulation, and other documents that govern use and management of the Colorado River. The fundamental question explored at the conference was... Read more
Exploring the Vast Potential of Virtual Oil Fields
New Report Ensures that the Center Remains a Prominent Voice in Energy Use and Policy
By Jason Hanson
As the days get warmer and thermostats throughout the West are switched from heating to cooling, the Center of the American West is focused on helping people stay comfortable and save money. Building on the great success of our 2003 report on energy in the West and as part of our ongoing energy initiative... Read more
The Web and the West: Comparing Two Frontiers
By Kurt Gutjahr
In partnership with Silicon Flatirons, the Center of the American West invited historians, web experts, lawyers, and public servants to address the parallels between the development of the Web and the settling of the American West... Read more
The Center's Academic Program is Thriving in 2007
By Roni Ires
500The Center of the American West is touching the lives of students at the University of Colorado through our Hoffmon Scholars program, our certificate program, our off-campus internships, the Thompson Awards, and more. Spring 2007 has been an especially thriving time for the Western Studies academic program. With almost too much going on to mention, here are a few highlights... Read more
Aspen's Climate Change
By Bill Travis
Aspen's climate is changing. And greater change is projected with much higher temperatures. That is the conclusion ofClimate Change and Aspen, a new report on which bill Travis of the Center of the American West collaborated with several organizations through... Read more
New Geographies of the American West
Land Use and Changing Patterns of Place
By Bill Travis
In New Gegraphies of the American West, a new publication from Island Press, Bill Travis, co-author of the Center's Atlas of the New West examines development patterns in the West, arguing that the region is dominated much more by booming development than by bust... Read more
Crossing the (Indian) Color Line: A Family Memoir
Modern Indian Identity Series Featuring Philip Deloria
By Kurt Gutjahr
The second installment in the Modern Indian Identity Lectures, a series of contemporary Indian speakers, telling their stoires in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation... Read more
CAW Spotlight: Tim Brown
In 2003, Tim Brown, his wife Teresa and two daughters had been happily iving in San Francisco for seven years. Tim had just finished a three-year post-doc at Stanford University and was casting about for teaching position in the area... Read more
The Nature of Justice
Racial Equity and Environmental Well-Being
By Buzzy Jackson
Environmental responsibility. Racial equality. Environmental justice. Social justice. How are these concepts related? The Center hopes to provide some answer in The Nature of Justice: Racial Equity and Environmental Well-Being, an anthology edited by Patty Limerick, Barry Muchnick, and Buzzy Jackson... Read more
Life of the Frontiersmen and Frontierswomen in the Western Aesthetic
By student author Abigale Stangl
On February 1st, 2007, Patty Limerick and the Center of the American West hosted an intimate dinner for a group of fifteen students, faculty, and Center of the American West friends. During an evening of laughter, expoloration, and reminiscence, featured guest and architect Rick Peterson lead a presentation and discussion on what entails appropriate architecture for the Rocky Mountain Region... Read more
Acknowledgement of Contributions
Click here to download a list of the Center of the American West's friends who helped make this year a success. We extend our sincere thanks for your support of the Center of the American West