Palmer Land Conservancy has acquired Pinestone Ranch, 674 acres at the foot of Pikes Peak that had been on the market at $5.9m as a development site. The land is to become public open space — after the conservancy finds an owner for it and raises half the purchase price.
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Where the Easement Ends: Two Land Trusts Join the Buc-ee’s Argument
Two land trusts have signed an open letter against the Buc-ee’s proposed for Monument Hill. Neither can stop it. What they can do is make it harder to decide quietly—because one of them holds the paper on the 17,700 acres across the road. Another voice has entered the long argument over the travel center proposed […]
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The Last Line of Defense: How Greenland Ranch Keeps Denver and Colorado Springs Apart
Twenty-six years ago a cable billionaire, a county and a lottery-funded land program bought the view north of County Line Road. The easement they built stops at the county line — which is exactly where Buc-ee’s is standing.