Cold Mountain Ranch News Today

Lands west of Carbondale withdrawn from oil and gas leasing for 20 years

Tucked in the Marble outpost of the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, more than 130 community members from Aspen to Marble and beyond gathered to discuss the future of the Crystal River. 

Tucked in the Marble outpost of the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, more than 130 community members from Aspen to Marble and beyond gathered to discuss the future of the Crystal River. 

A pasture near Redstone will be protected from development, but county government has yet to find the most appropriate way to do so. “We’re going to find a way to conserve this property,” said Commissioner...

Carbondale rancher Bill Fales remembers those early gatherings going back to the late 2000s when — unlike past environmental debates — agriculture, recreation, conservation, and even different political sides found common ground. The issue: how...

Carbondale rancher Bill Fales remembers those early gatherings going back to the late 2000s when, unlike past environmental debates, agriculture, recreation, conservation and even different political sides found common ground. The issue: how to convince...

A Crystal River Valley rancher and a nonprofit organization are teaming up for the second time to try to leave more water in a parched stream. Cold Mountain Ranch owners Bill Fales and Marj Perry...

Editor’s Note: This story is a collaborative report by Fresh Water News working with nine other Colorado news outlets.

Chelsea Self / Post Independent Rex and Jo Coffman couldn’t imagine their 141 acres of land east of Carbondale being anything but a working ranch and riverfront nature preserve. So they made sure of it. The Coffmans, now both 90 years old, have been working with the Aspen Valley Land Trust in recent years on a plan to keep the ranch in agriculture well beyond their own years. That vision is about to become reality Aug. 31, when the AVLT is set to close on the purchase of the property with the...

Chelsea Self / Post Independent Rex and Jo Coffman couldn’t imagine their 141 acres of land east of Carbondale being anything but a working ranch and riverfront nature preserve. So they made sure of it. The Coffmans, now both 90 years old, have been working with the Aspen Valley Land Trust in recent years on a plan to keep the ranch in agriculture well beyond their own years. That vision is about to become reality Aug. 31, when the AVLT is set to close on the purchase of the property with the...