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<br />001249 <br /> <br />Draft - 9/81 <br /> <br />specIes are receivIng increased popular attention, providing <br /> <br />opportunities for wildlife observation and photography. <br /> <br />Current Trends16,17 <br /> <br />Demographics <br /> <br />Colorado's population is increasing rapidly. From 1940 to <br /> <br />1979 the population increased from 1,123,000 people to 2,716,000 <br /> <br />people, an Increase of 142 percent. During that time most of the <br /> <br />growth, both absolutely and proportionately, occurred in the <br /> <br />Platte RegIon. <br /> <br />The regIon's populatIon has Increased by approxI- <br /> <br />matel) 1,232,217 people sInce 1940 and by 365,020 people sInce <br /> <br />1970. <br /> <br />In 1979, more than two out of three people in Colorado <br /> <br />(67.8 percent) lIved in the Platte RegIon, most of them in the <br /> <br />~ Front Range countIes of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Jeffer- <br />son, Larimer, and Weld. <br /> <br />The Arkansas Region as a whole has also shown consistent <br /> <br />growth sInce 1940 and is the state's second most populous regIon. <br /> <br />Seventy-six percent of the regIon's 1979 populatIon of 539,380 <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />people lived in El Paso and Pueblo CountIes. Though the popula- <br /> <br />tion of many of the region's rural counties declIned during the <br /> <br />39-year span, the decline was more than offset reglonwide by <br /> <br />rapid growth in El Paso and Pueblo Counties. <br /> <br />The population decreased in the other two Eastern Slope <br /> <br />regions between 1940 and 1979. The Northern HIgh Plains <br /> <br />16Sources: Schulze, Suzanne, 1976; U. S. Bureau of the Census, <br />1979; Colorado DivisIon of PlannIng, 1979. <br />17Figures for 1979 population are estimates made by the Colorado <br />Division of Planning, Demographic Section. <br /> <br />16 <br />