Tag: Elk Migration
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Eagle Rock Ranch wins Colorado Leopold Conservation Award
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Dave and Jeannie Gottenborg met as teenagers wrangling horses at a dude ranch in Estes Park, married, and began chasing a shared dream of owning their own cattle spread. Decades later, after careers in law and the energy sector, two children and six grandchildren, they finally bought Eagle Rock Ranch in Park County in 2012…
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Elk migration eased by South Park conservation effort
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From the peaks of the Lost Creek Wilderness, more than 2,000 elk migrate annually down to South Park near the towns of Fairplay and Jefferson for the winter. These herds have been traveling these routes since time immemorial. And one of those primary migration routes passes through Dave Gottenborg’s 4,000-acre Eagle Rock Ranch. Gottenborg recently…