Larimer County Acquires 1,091-Acre Ranch Bordering Red Mountain Open Space

The property is just one of four ranches identified for conservation within the Laramie Foothills area, supported through the Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) Open Space grant that was awarded in June of this year.

“This purchase further stitches together lands conserved through a long-term partnership among Larimer County, Fort Collins, private landowners and others in the Laramie Foothills,” said Meegan Flenniken, Land Conservation, Planning & Resource Division Manager, Larimer County Natural Resources.

The property includes stream-carved canyons, hogback rock outcroppings, ponderosa pine forests, and one of the largest extents of globally imperiled mountain mahogany shrubland communities. Larimer County will purchase the ranch for a total of $3.5 million with funding from the County’s Help Preserve Open Spaces sales tax, City of Fort Collins’ Open Space Yes sales tax, Great Outdoors Colorado, and the Friends of Larimer County Parks and Open Lands.

“We are honored to be able to partner with this landowner to protect the ranch in perpetuity,” said Daylan Figgs, Director, Larimer County Natural Resources. “Sincere thanks to the citizens of Fort Collins and Larimer County for their continued support of local open space initiatives that make projects like this possible,” Daylan said.

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For more information regarding the ranch purchase, visit www.larimer.org/naturalresources or call Meegan Flenniken, Larimer County Natural Resources, at 970-619-4562