BOARD02492

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2005
• Description: Status of Legislation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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First Regular Session
Sixty-fifth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO

REVISED

LLS NO. R05-1002.01 Karen Woods
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House Committees
Local Government

Senate Committees
Agriculture, Natural Resources & Energy

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 05-1055
CONCERNING THE ORGANIZATION OF A SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE OF
THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO CONSIDER
ISSUES RELATING TO COLORAOO'SRURAL AREAS.

WHEREAS, Rural America, occupying more than 80 percent of
the land area of the United States and accounting for a fifth of its
population, is rich in ecological and cultural diversity; and

WHEREAS, Technological, political, and economic changes have
brought a profound transformation to agriculture and other renewable
resource industries and to the rural communities dependent on them; and

WHEREAS, Some rural communities face a drain of population
while others, particularly those with high scenic or recreatioIUil. value,
struggle willi burgeomng populations placing new demands on
ecosystems and traditional ways of life; and

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