Article: GREAT SAND DUNES CLOSER TO BECOMING NATIONAL PARK BACA RANCH DEAL WILL DOUBLE ITS SIZE.(City Desk/Local)

Eric Delfraissy of Paris, France, runs up a dune at the Great Sand ...
KRT Photos;  April 5, 2000 ;     328 words ... ... France, runs up a dune at the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. The Nature ... to purchase the 97,000-acre Baca Ranch and two 14,000-foot peaks in southern Colorado, next to Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve ...

The Nature Conservancy said it is spending $31.28 million to purchase the ...
KRT Photos;  April 5, 2000 ;     313 words ... ... Conservancy said it is spending $31.28 million to purchase the 97,000-acre Baca Ranch and two 14,000-foot peaks in southern Colorado, next to Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve. (GT) NC KD 2002 (Horiz) (lde) Document ...

Article: The Nature Conservancy Signs Agreement to Buy 97,000-Acre ...
PR Newswire;  January 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 97,000-acre Baca Ranch, which borders the Great Sand Dunes National Monument ... the future Great Sand Dunes National Park. "The Baca Ranch purchase is the ... purchase of the Baca Ranch ensures the Great Sand Dunes will be around ...

Article: Interior Secretary Helps Move Colorado's Baca Ranch ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 20, 2002 ;     417 words ... ... Gale Norton has signed off on the "due diligence" statement regarding the purchase of the Baca Ranch for eventual inclusion into the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Park Superintendent Steve Chaney said that the statement, signed ...

Article: Lofty ideals have bare beginnings Spiritual haven springs from ...
The Gazette;  June 26, 2005 ;     607 words ... ... In the 1970s, Canadian millionaire Maurice Strong and several partners bought the historic Baca Ranch, which spreads north from the Great Sand Dunes and from the Sangre de Cristo mountains westward into the heart of the San Luis Valley. The ...

Article: BRIEFING: SAGUACHE BACA RANCH ON ITS WAY TO JOINING ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 25, 2003 ;     453 words ...An arbitration award has brought the Baca Ranch closer to becoming part of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. American Water Development ... the federal government to turn the Great Sand Dunes National Monument into a park and the adjacent ...

Article: FEDS HAVE $8.5 MILLION TO SPEND ON BACA RANCH BUY.
States News Service;  November 2, 2000 ;     570 words ... ... its disposal to buy the Baca Ranch with an eye toward incorporating it into a new Great Sand Dunes National Park, department ... The 100,000-acre Baca Ranch near Alamosa lies at ... effort to expand the Sand Dunes National Monument and ...