The U.S. Forest Service-managed Chaffee Recreation Rangers focused on preventing resource damage and cleaning up at Chaffee County’s most popular dispersed camping areas this year.
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Commissioners approve open bidding for its largest grazed landholding
-Colorado State Land Board
DENVER At its monthly, public meeting, the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners voted to offer the 86,211-acre Chico Basin Ranch for a 10-year agriculture grazing lease to one operator via a public competitive bid process in 2023.
The Colorado State Land Board has existed since statehood to steward Colorado’s working trust lands on behalf of Colorado public schools. The agency owns 2.8 million acres of trust land commonly called school section land and has earned $2 billion in recent history for its trust beneficiaries, public schools, by leasing the land for assorted uses. One property owned by the State Land Board is the Chico Basin Ranch that spans 135 miles in El Paso and Pueblo counties near Colorado Springs.