The fifth annual State of the Rockies Conference will be held April 6-8 on the Colorado College campus and will mark the launch of the 2008 State of the Rockies Report Card.
Rockies Project Events
Photo Contest
Colorado College students: submit your photographs for the inaugural 2008 Rockies Photo Contest!
The Colorado College State of the Rockies Project is calling for student photo submissions. Select photos may be included in the 2008 State of the Rockies Report Card, and multiple cash prizes will be awarded at the State of the Rockies Conference in April, 2008.
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Speakers and Schedule for the 2007 Wilderness/Wildlands Speakers’ Series
Energizing the Rockies: Energy Challenges in Global, National and Regional Perspectives
Energizing the Rockies was a monthly speaker series running from December 2006 to March 2007, co-sponsored with the Schlessman Business Perspectives Program, which addressed the impacts the current energy boom is having on the communities and environment in the eight-state Rockies region.

Ted Turner receives inaugural “Champion of the Rockies Award”
Noting his strong commitment to the health and preservation of the Rocky Mountain West region, Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project awarded its first Champion of the Rockies Award to environmentalist, philanthropist and media giant Ted Turner.Turner, who owns the largest amount of private land in the United States, manages the largest private bison herd in North America, and is one of the nation’s most influential environmental philanthropists, accepted the award at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3 in Armstrong Hall, 14 E. Cache La Poudre St., on the Colorado College campus.
