Archives of the Twelfth Headwaters Conference, November 2-4, 2001
Papers prepared for and presented at the 12th Headwaters Conference, Nov. 2-4, 2000, at Western State College.
- "What is 'Sense of Place'?" by Jennifer Cross.
Dr. Cross has summarized this information from the paper she presented at Headwaters XI last year, along with some new thinking on the topic. This is a good "primer" for this year's discussion. Dr. Cross is a sociologist currently at Colorado State University.
- "Conservation of the Exotic: Fishes of the Upper Gunnison Basin," by Kevin Alexander. Dr. Alexander, a biologist teaching at Western State College, examines the dilemma of a conservation biologist in a river basin with few native fishes.
- "The I-70 Corridor: A short history of a highway and a brief look at its culture," by Allen Best. Best, a freelance writer and former newspaper editor in Vail, explores the creation of a place and the highway that runs through it.
- "The Spatial Imaginary of the Frontier: From the Primal West to Ad Space," by Frank M. Coleman. Dr. Coleman is a political scientist, formerly with the Environmental Protection Agency, now living in the Upper Gunnison valley.
- "Maps, Perception, and Place," by Phil Crossley. Dr. Crossley is a geographer teaching at Western State College.
- "'Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone': The Economic Significance of Beauty," by Laura McCall. Dr. McCall is a historian who teaches at Metropolitan State College of Denver, an often-published author, and a frequent Headwaters participant.
- "An Economic and Demographic Sense of Place for the Gunnison Headwaters Region," by Walt Hecox, Frank Patrick Holmes and Robert David Pilz. Dr. Hecox is a Professor of Economics at the Colorado College; Mr. Holmes and Mr. Pilz are students in his Sustainable Development Workshop. (Note from the Editor: Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to access this page, and I was only able to find it using the Netscape Navigator browser. This is the URL if clicking on the title doesn't work: http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/EC/Faculty/ Hecox/ECSenseHeadwtrsPDF.pdf)
- "Why Our Towns Sit Where They Do," by Ed Quillen. Quillen is a writer and philosopher who lives in Salida, where he publishes Colorado Central Magazine with his wife Martha, and from where he writes a regular Sunday and Tuesday column for the Denver Post.