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Bacon to bring conservation effort home with plan that would protect 90,000 acres

By | 06.15.12 | 3:47 pm

Billionaire hedge-funder Louis Bacon is donating a conservation easement on 90,000 acres bordering the San Luis Valley, which will provide the foundation for the proposed new Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in the process of establishing.

Division of Wildlife to protect land around massive bat cave

By | 11.24.10 | 8:46 am

From Balloon Boy to Tom Tancredo, in the eyes of the rest of the nation, Colorado is a pretty damned weird state. The absolute epicenter of that weirdness is the San Luis Valley, where the oddities include high-altitude Sahara-style sand…