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Colorado Plateau Annual
Meetings
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BACKGROUND
The
Colorado Plateau’s biological diversity ranges across a number of human
boundaries. The vast Plateau (130,000 square miles) is a mixing pot of
administrative forces: 12 Indian tribes (presently tribal lands
comprise ~24% of the Plateau), four states (Arizona, Utah, Colorado and
New Mexico), 34 counties, 225 communities, 26 national parks,
monuments, national historic sites, and recreation areas, 15 national
forests and 10 Bureau of Land Management districts (federal land
comprises 55% of the Plateau). As a result conservation issues such as
water and forest management, protecting and recovering populations of
imperiled species, and climate change’s effects on human water use,
agriculture and wild ecosystems span multiple jurisdictional
boundaries. These are landscape-scale problems, demanding collaboration
across human boundaries.
On
the
Plateau
and
elsewhere
Native
American
tribes
are
a
rising
force
in
natural
resource
management,
largely
due
to
hard
fought
gains
around
cultural
sovereignty
and
advances
in
management
capacity.
Across
the
Colorado
Plateau
tribes
are
influential
stakeholders
on critical conservation
issues such as water management, renewable energy development/mineral
resources and endangered species recovery. Moreover, they maintain a
culture whose traditional knowledge has co-evolved with these
landscapes over millennia. |
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Previous
Meetings:
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2011 |
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2010 |
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2009 |
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2008
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2005 |
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2004 |
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