Conservation Easements
October 23, 2009--Lower Arkansas Valley tests easements on water (Pueblo Chieftain)
Linking water to the land in a conservation easement has become a muddy area in Colorado. The value of the water used on farms can increase exponentially if its use is changed to municipal or industrial, creating a dilemma for assessors, headaches for property owners and trouble for conservation easement sponsors in the past.
September 23, 2009--RiGHT gets $1 million grant (Del Norte Prospector)
The Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust (RiGHT) has been awarded their
second $1 million grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation
Act (NAWCA) toward conservation of the Rio Grande corridor in the San
Luis Valley. The funds were approved at the Sept. 9 meeting of the
national Migratory Bird Conservation Commission.
September 18, 2009--Conservation easement creates new State Wildlife Area (Salida Citizen)
Colorado has a new State Wildlife Area in Chaffee County. Chubb Park Ranch State Wildlife Area is located approximately nine
miles northeast of Buena Vista on Highway 24/285. Joseph and Arlene
Cogan, whose family has been ranching in Chaffee County since 1889, own
the 507-acre ranch. They have agreed to open their ranch to public
hunting as part of a perpetual conservation easement.
January 10, 2008--Isgar wields clout as legislature convenes (Telluride Watch)
Senator Jim Isgar, who because of his leadership position is not subject to the five-bill limit imposed on most lawmakers, said he is sponsoring four bills for the Audit Committee, will carry most of the water bills coming from the Water Resources Review Committee and the Department of Natural Resources, and will be the primary Senate sponsor of bills dealing with conservation easements and net
January 8, 2008--Roundtable asks for funds from state (Alamosa News)
The Rio Grande Inter Basin Roundtable on Tuesday voted - this time unanimously - to resubmit to the state a request for $1.3 million from statewide water funds and $200,000 from Rio Grande Basin designated funds for the Rio Grande Initiative, a project designed to protect the Rio Grande corridor through voluntary conservation easements.
January 6, 2008--Ranchers, farmers keep nature in and feds out (Denver Post)
Increasingly, efforts to preserve endangered species are finding acceptance in unlikely quarters, such as among the ranchers of the San Luis Valley, where the presence of a rare bird known as the willow flycatcher has fueled a popular voluntary land- conservation effort.
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