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<br />FOREWORD <br /> <br />Continuing economic development and population growth in Colorado <br />are having substantial impacts on land use, water resources and the <br />general quality of the environment, The impacts of this dynamic change <br />are most noticeable in the urban areas along the Rocky Mountain front <br />range, During the past two decades more and more land has been converted <br />from agriculture to residential, commercial and industrial uses, <br /> <br />In this study by Dr, Raymond L. Anderson of the Natural Resource <br />Economics Division of ERS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, there is <br />analysis of recent changes in land use for the northern three counties <br />of the Colorado front range. <br /> <br />The cooperation and assistance of members of the planning staffs of <br />Boulder, Weld and Larimer counties and of the major cities and towns was <br />essential in assembling the data used in this study. Their aid is greatly <br />appreciated. Professor Ed Prill, College of Business at Colorado State <br />University provided two student assistants, Gabrielle Fideler and Kurt Love, <br />who were most useful in gathering much of the data. Helen Gobel, cartog- <br />rapher in the Weld County Planning Office, did an outstanding job mapping <br />recent urban growth in the three counties during the past seven years. <br /> <br />The Cooperative Extension Service, Colorado State University, in <br />recognition of the vital necessity for information and methodologies to <br />perform land use planning, has underwritten the publication of this <br />report. It is hoped that this publication will prove useful to those <br />concerned with changes in land use and will deepen their understanding <br />of the nature of these changes, <br /> <br />Dr. Warren L. Trock <br />Professor and Extension <br />Economist, Department of <br />Agricultural and Natural <br />Resource Economics <br /> <br />August 1984 <br />