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Datasets used in the analysis of the Colorado Plateau (COP) Rapid Ecoregion Assessment (REA).They can be downloaded via a layer package (lpk, similar to a zip file and contains layer files) that can be used in ESRI software. The Colorado Plateau REA has been peer reviewed. The Colorado Plateau ecoregion is located Utah and Colorado with extensions in New Mexico and Arizona. It has an area of 32,387 square miles and includes all or portions of 16 BLM field offices. The Colorado Plateau is an uplifted, eroded, and deeply dissected tableland. Its benches, mesas, buttes, salt valleys, cliffs, and canyons are formed in and underlain by thick layers of sedimentary rock. The ecoregion has a broad latitudinal range, from the Uinta Basin in the north to the arid canyonlands along the border of Arizona and New Mexico.