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About the San Juan
Forum
The San Juan Forum is a non-profit corporation whose goal is to enhance
economic development in the Four Corners region while preserving and advancing
the quality of life for area residents. This has been the mission of the
Forum since its inception in January of 1991 when it first met to discuss
several issues concerning the entire San Juan Basin. The regional concerns
and issues addressed at this first meeting included transportation, waste
management, natural resource development, tourism, and agriculture, and
are items under discussion by the Forum's membership to resolve the needs
in these areas with cooperation and communication for cost effective solutions.
The Forum serves as a unifying force for local, state and tribal governments
from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah to collectively address the
needs of the region, not simply the needs of individual communities. It
strongly supports the concept of regional cooperation across the somewhat
arbitrary federal, state, tribal, and county boundaries currently existing
in the San Juan Basin.
The San Juan Forum includes the cooperative efforts of the Southern Ute
Tribe; the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; the Navajo Nation; the Jicarilla Apache
Nation; San Juan County, New Mexico; La Plata, Archuleta, Montezuma, Dolores,
and San Juan counties in Colorado; San Juan County, Utah; the Resource,
Conservation, and Development Council of Northeast Arizona; and state representation
from New Mexico and Colorado. Private business interests are represented
as well on the Forum board of directors.
The San Juan Forum currently has several issues of regional concern which
it is working on including: health care, telecommunications, transportation,
value-added and sustainable agriculture, business development, tourism,
federal agency collaboration and cooperation with local entities for rural
community development, and regional air service.
The San Juan Forum is housed at Fort Lewis College and serves the region
through the facilities and manpower provided by the college, with San Juan
College in Farmington, NM as an active partner. Through grass roots initiated
efforts, the San Juan Forum is actively involved in bringing a better way
of life to the citizens of the San Juan Basin.
Please send comments or question about the San Juan Forum to: eppich_d@fortlewis.edu
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