90,000 Colorado acres offered for national protected area?
~ The Rebel ~
2012/06/15 20:58:56
The proposed Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area is advancing today with an
unprecedented offer to protect 90,000 acres that includes three fourteener peaks
— aimed at encouraging other private landowners to participate.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he will announce an agreement with
billionaire New York hedge- fund manager and conservationist Louis Bacon for an
easement preventing future development.
This would be one of the largest easements the federal government has secured
— and the largest parcel the Obama administration has protected in its campaign
to preserve pristine landscapes for wildlife and recreation.
Bacon's
holdings span grasslands, forests and tundra between Great Sand Dunes National
Park and La Veta Pass on the east side of the San Luis Valley — including Mount
Lindsey and Blanca and Little Bear peaks. The parcel would fill a crucial gap in
the emerging 5-millon-acre corridor through Colorado and New Mexico.
holdings span grasslands, forests and tundra between Great Sand Dunes National
Park and La Veta Pass on the east side of the San Luis Valley — including Mount
Lindsey and Blanca and Little Bear peaks. The parcel would fill a crucial gap in
the emerging 5-millon-acre corridor through Colorado and New Mexico.
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