The Empty Interior

This area stretches from the Eastern Rockies to the Sierra Nevada of California, to the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest and into Alaska. It is known to be as the largest area of sparse population in AMerica. The Rocky Mountains "still have remnants of glaciation found in the central Rockies and the Sierra Nevada's" (Birdsall, etc..). The South Platte River is a river that is formed from the glaciation of the Rockies and heads through all Denver. The Colorado river provides water for California, Nevada, Arizona and couple other western states. Although the empty interior has a high level of Mormon influence, Colorado only has an average of 2% percent of the population survey practicing the Mormon faith according to the Pew forum. The federal and state government own about 43% of Colorado, with a lot of land being dedicated to forest and parks. In these forest and parks, there are tons of wildlife that live there.