Change in Colorado since the time of the Native Americans

I think that Colorado has definetly changed since the time of the Native Americans. Some of those changes are for the better and some for worse, but on the whole I think that we are going downhill with nature in the great state of Colorado.

Firstly, I think that with all of the development that has been going on, we have polluted our state's air and that we are using its resources in a way that isn't exactly totally efficient. Granted we have a lot more stuff than the Natives had, but we also lost a lot. With forestation going on our forests are slowly being turned to barren wastelands and our current greenhouse gass emmisions could turn the beautiful snow-covered Rocky Mountains into not-quite so snow-covered mountains. Wildlife is being hunted off and some has already faced extinction and some other species are looking like they are going to be there in a matter of years. We have made a lot of great things happen here, but a lot of those things have come at the expense of others.