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NETWORK NOTES

Project initiates dialogue among U.S. Westerners

The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado-Boulder is starting a new project, "What Should Every Westerner Know?" Bill Riebsame and Patty Limerick, geology and history professors at UC-B, are conducting this project, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. To participate in "a dialogue about citizenship, environment, community, and region," send them your list of "what every westerner should know," or log onto their Web site.

This project has two main goals: 1) to help westerners examine their relationship and place in the landscape; 2) to help westerners examine their relationship both regionally and culturally with each other. The "digital component," the Web site, offers opportunities to comment on several topics, read other responses, and complete a five-question survey, all of which will be material for a book tentatively called The Handbook for the New West.

For more information, contact the Center of the American West, University of Colorado-Boulder, Campus Box 234, Boulder, CO 80309; phone: 303/492-3879; e-mail: westerner@centerwest.org.