Conservation Awards

Supporting wildlife and conservation

Our customers feel good knowing that our meadows and pastures support far more than just our own cattle. Many types and numbers of waterfowl, shorebirds, mammals, and raptors, among other numerous species, utilize our grazing land, in a complementary and symbiotic relationship with our close neighbor, the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge. In fact we have won many state-wide and national conservation awards, and most of the ranch is, or will be protected with a conservation easement, so it will remain in agriculture and open space in perpetuity, as part of the Rock Creek Heritage Project.

Awards

1999- Outstanding Conservationist Colorado Association of Soil Conservation Districts

2001- Steward of the Land National Award American Farmland Trust

2001- National Wetlands Award Landowner Division Environmental Law Institute

2005- Leopold Conservation Award The Sand County Foundation, Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust