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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 goal of maintaining it as a working ranch, while also serving as an outdoors, agricultural and scie...
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 goal of maintaining it as a working ranch, while also serving as an outdoors, agricultural and scie...