The High Lonesome Ranch has failed in its attempt to be able to keep a gate locked to bar public access to two roads west of De Beque while a federal appeals court considers whether a lower court in December mistakenly found the roads to be public. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Mary Briscoe and Robert Bacharach on Friday rejected the ranchâs request that the court issue a stay on U.S. District Court of Colorado Judge R. Brooke Jacksonâs ruling in favor of Garfield County that North Dry Fork and Middle Dry Fork roads are public and must be opened to the public. The ranch wanted to keep the roads off-limits pending the outcome of its appeal of Jacksonâs ruling, and the stay, if granted, could have kept them closed for years.