The Center for Protected Area Management (CPAM) is an outreach center of the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Department housed within the Warner College of Natural Resources, one of the most comprehensive Natural Resource College’s in the world.

It’s mission is to extend the Colorado State University land-grant mission by contributing to the conservation, planning, and management of the world’s protected areas and the landscapes and seascapes that connect them through capacity building, applied research, and technical collaboration with the organizations that help manage them and the communities whose well-being depends on them.