Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Salazar creates Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar established a conservation area in the
San Luis Valley on Friday after billionaire Louis Bacon committed to
protect more of his vast landholdings in southern Colorado. Salazar
said the designation of the Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area marked a
“glorious day for our nation, for the state of Colorado, for the Sangre
de Cristo mountain range. … It is the spirit of Louis Bacon which
allows us today to say that the southern Rockies are in fact a landscape
of national significance and one that will be protected for generations
to come.” Bacon, a
hedge fund manager, is adding a conservation easement to protect nearly
77,000 acres of his 81,400-acre Trinchera Ranch from development. He
announced plans in June to add a perpetual conservation easement on his
90,000-acre Blanca Ranch if the federal government moved ahead with
plans to create a new 5 million-acre conservation corridor in Colorado
and New Mexico. The
Blanca Ranch easement is expected to be finalized later this year and,
with the Trinchera land just south, will represent the largest easement
donation ever to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It
creates “a contiguous mosaic of privately held and publicly protected
lands that will stay in perpetuity in creating one of the longest
migratory wildlife corridors in America,” stretching from the Great Sand
Dunes National Park and Preserve to New Mexico, Bacon said...more
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