Nestled at the base of Colorado’s two highest peaks, Hayden Ranch is a keystone piece of the Lake County Open Space Initiative. The Conservation Fund worked with the city of Aurora and Lake County to transfer more than 1,400 acres of this sweeping ranchland to the Bureau of Land Management, thereby culminating a seven-year effort to preserve wildlife habitat, scenic vistas and recreation areas within the Upper Arkansas River Basin and along the Top of the Rockies National and Historic Scenic Byway (U.S. 24). Now open to the public for hiking, hunting and wildlife viewing, the west end of the ranch safeguards habitat for some 600 elk.
Mountain West
Where Montana’s dramatic peaks give way to the Northern Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain Front forms a landscape unlike any other in America. The Front represents some of the nation’s rarest wildlife habitat -- for grizzlies and other species -- and today it is under threat. Read more »
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Grizzlies On The Front