Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) does not have evidence how the Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) test results correlate to other test methods (say, R-value) for Colorado's pavement subgrade. Even, the correlation between single-mass, and dual-mass DCP (which are two ways of conducting DCP test) is still unknown. Pavement Mechanistic Empirical Design (PMED) guide provides some correlations among different subgrade tests. However, those correlation are derived from national data. Research was thus needed to investigate the correlation between single-mass, and dual-mass DCP, and determine correlations among other subgrade tests for Colorado's pavement soils.
Every five years, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) leads development of a comprehensive outdoor recreation plan to maintain eligibility for funding through the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to inform additional investments from other federal, state, local and private programs. Given the significance of outdoor recreation in the state, this plan is much more than a federal requirement for funding. This plan is the first time a Colorado SCORP considers both conservation and recreation together as values that are closely intertwined.
The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not mandate access to paid family and medical leave (PFML) benefits. Simultaneously, nearly half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and are unable to access two thousand dollars in the event of an emergency. On May 30, 2019 Senate Bill 19-188 (SB 19-188) was passed to prepare for the implementation of a paid family and medical leave program in Colorado by establishing a family and medical leave implementation task force, charged with providing a final recommendation on 16 factors, regarding a paid family and medical leave program for all employees in the state.
The Analysis and Technical Update to the Colorado Water Plan (Technical Update) provides technical data and information regarding Colorado's water resources. The technical data and information generated are intended to help inform decision making and planning regarding water resources at a statewide or basin wide planning level. The Colorado Water Conservation Board intends for the Technical Update to help promote and facilitate a better understanding of water supply and demand considerations within the State.
We examine positive links between school attendance and student achievement in the context of secondary schools in Nepal via original data collection matched to administrative records. We pay attention to gender since previous work is suggestive of menstruation affecting school attendance in this context. We also examine other non-attendance determinants of achievement, including individual and family-related characteristics, for comparison. This ongoing research contributes to understanding gender disparities in access to education and educational attainment as relevant to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This guidebook is designed to be used by practitioners, educators, decision-makers, citizens, and community organizations. It is organized into seven chapters that focus on health issues related to community engagement, the natural environment, water, food, buildings, open space and streetscapes, and mobility. The expectation is for the guidebook to contribute in a meaningful way to continued efforts to make communities healthy, vibrant, and complete places in which all types of residents can live, work, and play.
This issue brief provides an overview of how mental health medication is administered in the criminal justice system and information on recent legislation focused on reducing the number of individuals being detained while waiting for treatment.
Bat populations in the western portion of the US are threatened by the rapid westward expansion of White-nose Syndrome (WNS), a disease implicated in the loss of over a million bats since 2006. Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the fungus believed responsible for WNS, has been confirmed in southeastern Wyoming, southcentral Kansas, western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle, potentially placing at least 13 of the 18 bat species native to Colorado at risk for significant population-level declines. The continued westward movement of WNS emphasizes the need for improved information on the status of bats in Colorado, a systematic and thorough survey and assessment of the importance of caves and abandoned mines to Colorado's bat populations, and a coordinated effort to monitoring for WNS in the state.
In 2019, the Colorado Natural Heritage Program repeated Anderson (2001) density estimates for the entire milkvetch (Astragalus schmolliae) population on Chapin Mesa within Mesa Verde National Park (MEVE). A total of 197-100 x 10 m belt transects were established in 2001 (one year before a fire burned nearly 40% of the population) and repeated in 2019. Our observations present multiple hypothesis as to why the burned areas have become less favorable to Chapin Mesa milkvetch, including: 1) seedlings are suppressed due to competition for soil moisture from abundant grass cover, especially cheatgrass, western wheatgrass, and smooth brome, 2) shallow soil temperatures during the growing season are significantly higher in burned areas, which exacerbates depletion of soil moisture, especially when coupled with abundant grass cover, 3) lack of bare ground in burned areas inhibits ground-nesting bees, which may be important pollinators, 4) without tree cover for protection, late frosts are more likely to kill flowers in the burned area as well as increase peak daytime soil temperature.
