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. provide students a well rounded experience once they have graduated from the CMC NRM program. Proiect Experience The following is a list of projects that NRM has worked on: . USFWS Baseline Ecosystem Evaluation: the CMC NRM was tasked to reconstruct the baseline ecosystem status of the Leadville and 11-mile reach component of the Arkansas River. The baseline status that we were trying to reconstruct was during a time period prior to mining disturbance (pre 1880s). Very little written records were kept for that time period, so a myriad of data collection efforts had to be relied upon. These included 1) interviews with area residents who have knowledge of the history of the area, 2) review and evaluation of any literature sources, and 3) review and evaluation of historic photographs. Since written and photographic records were lacking, inferential methods were also used such as extrapolating the possible vegetative assemblage based upon soils conditions, or also be the comparable watershed (background comparison) method. The results of this effort are being used to determine suitable natural resource management goals required for the contaminated waste site cleanup designs. (Point of Contact: Laura Coppock/USFW S). California Gulch Watershed Site-Wide water quality investigation: for approximately 17 years, the US EPA has undergone significant efforts to construct watershed-scale remediation efforts within the California Gulch Superfund Site. Currently, the site is within the later stages of closure. Thus, to test the efficacy of the remediation efforts, the students have been tasked to monitor water quality conditions throughout the watershed. Sampling efforts were designed in order to characterize water quality and metals loading during snowmelt runoff, precipitation events, through synoptic evaluation, and through point/non-point source sampling. As part of this effort, the NRM has constructed a comprehensive data tracking database for a) all the samples, the associated water quality, site photos, site maps, and sample tracking and shipping information, and b) for the analytical data that corresponds to the collected samples. The database allows for a comprehensive evaluation of the watershed and is made available through the NRM web page. This enables the EPA, their contractors and other regulators to access the information on a real-time basis. This project is ongoing, with a start date of May, 2000. Point of Contact: Mike Holmes/USEPA. . Evans Gulch Watershed water quality investigation: this effort encompassed three components of a) an evaluation of existing analytical data gathered from previous synoptic and precipitation event surface