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What makes a county the place that is through an ecological eye a high quality place to live?
As population growth and availability, use and consumption of our energy impacts our global environment, the Index attempts to answer this question. After reviewing and researching a number of livability factors encompassing environmental, land use and energy consumption impacts, the Index focuses on six categories along with their index weightings. As bio-diversity information becomes available, it will be added and tracked in the Index.

Routt County Observations:
Since the baseline data was established in 2008, Pitkin County has seen the greatest improvement in Environmental Livability. Six of the 10 comparable counties have seen a decline in the composite Environmental Livability Index. Chaffee and Grand counties have seen the greatest rate of decline.
Within the Environmental measurements, Routt County has slightly decreased since the baseline Composite Environmental Index was established in 2008.
Routt County currently ranks 5th, a decline from 4th in the prior reporting period.