Mega-sprawl Ahead

Eleven western states are expected to see tremendous population growth in the next five decades.

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June 27, 2001, 1:00 PM PDT

"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.

Thanks to Adam Krom

FULL STORY: Mega-sprawl ahead

Wednesday, June 27, 2001 in The Denver Post

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