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The Western Policy Research Network connects policymakers and researchers who are interested in policy issues unique to the Intermountain West.  Most of these issues are not limited by state borders and can be more fully understood when explored from many perspectives.

We invite all university affiliated policy research centers interested in collaborative policy research on western issues to contact us and become active participants in this new policy research endeavor. Please send us an with your areas of interest, affiliation, and any current projects.

Welcome to the Western Policy Research Network, a consortium of university affiliated policy research centers from eight western states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Our purpose: to promote and facilitate collaborative research on western policy issues.

The Need

The Intermountain West is unlike any other region of the country. Great cities separated by vast open lands of majestic mountains, pine forests, and whitewater rivers.  Our diverse and growing population includes descendants of native tribes, early settlers and new immigrants from the population centers of the coasts and from other nations.  Like our land, public policy issues in the West are unique and are largely misunderstood or ignored by the rest of the country.

Oil painting by David Meikle