Jill Baron

Links More information: Publisher Index Page (via DOI) Download citation as: RIS | Dublin Core Suggested Citation Baron, J., Lindley, S., Collett, J., and Naimie, L., 2026, When best intentions are not enough - A collaboration between scientists, policymakers, and an agricultural community: Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2026.2709772.

ABSTRACT Rocky Mountain National Park is a Congressionally mandated Clean Air Act Class I Area, but years of research have documented evidence of biogeochemical and ecological change caused by atmospheric deposition of nitrogen. A coalition of government agencies—National Park Service, the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8, and the State of Colorado—developed the 2007 Nitrogen Deposition Reduction Plan to reduce wet nitrogen deposition to the park from the baseline in 2006 by 50% by 2032.

My family drives electric vehicles for many of the same reasons as others in Colorado: quiet ride, less maintenance, and critically, no heat-trapping emissions or nitrogen oxide emissions from the tailpipe. Gas and diesel vehicles produce pollutants that create ozone, harm human health, and contribute to climate change. As a scientist, I spent my career studying the impact of air pollutants on Rocky Mountain National Park.