Old West and New West in Garden Park Colorado
In Garden Park, a small valley in central Colorado, students from the University of Kansas geography field course discovered that the changing economics of ranching were making it increasingly difficult to earn a living off the land. A 2001 reexamination of the valley revealed a shift from a commodity-producing landscape to one focused on aesthetics and recreation, a transformation pandemic throughout the West.
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Year Published: 2004
File Size: 2.12 MB
