Mega-sprawl Ahead
27 June 2001 - 1:00pm
Eleven western states are expected to see tremendous population growth in the next five decades.
"In the next 50 years, Colorado and 10 other Western states will develop open land roughly the size of Cuba and add more people than the current population of Spain. Those are conservative estimates, according to the Western Futures project, a study by the University of Colorado's Center of the American West... "The future of the West is more sprawl," said William Reibsame Travis, CU geography professor and project leader of the study." Sadly, the online version of the article doesn't depict the map graphics found in the paper version.
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Mega-sprawl ahead
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The Denver Post, June 27, 2001
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