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After participating in the Community Conservation Connection, a non-perpetual conservation agreement through Central Colorado Conservancy, Brice and Kate Lewis became the first within the program to switch to a permanent
Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post and is republished here by permission. David Kelly has lived his whole life in Colorado’s Upper Arkansas River Valley, where his family has ranched since 1952. The community is committed to helping him and other ranchers there because of the benefits their lands produce for everyone. Kelly’s ranch, about three miles south of Buena Vista, is one of nine enrolled in a 1-year-old program that pays people to not develop their land or sell their water rights. Chaffee County voters approved a sales tax increase of 0.25% in 2018 to address forest health, the impac...