Ranchers Resist Sprawl In Colorado

Ranchers create a conservation agreement to form a massive 11,000-acre green belt and limit new development.

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July 29, 2002, 6:00 AM PDT

"The covenant marks a growing alliance between ranchers and environmentalists seeking to fight encroaching urbanization. Although a landowners and land preservationists have signed similar agreements elsewhere across the country, few other projects compare with the vast scale of the Wet Mountain Valley Ranch Preservation Program."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: Ranchers band together to resist sprawl

Monday, July 29, 2002 in The Christian Science Monitor

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