Video released to celebrate Tercio Ranch and Red River Ranch conserving 21,000 acres

Philanthropist Louis Bacon has announced a conservation partnership with Colorado Open Lands to place 21,000 acres of his Tercio Ranch and Red River Ranch in perpetuity.

In effect, the easement will create an unprecedented wildlife conservation corridor of nearly 800,000 acres stretching from southern Colorado to northern New Mexico. 

Louis Bacon’s donation will form one of the largest protected wildlife sanctuaries in the world, featuring a range of habitats including mountains, rivers, and valleys.

A video to commemorate the occasion has been created and can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J8o_uN76vt0

Locals and government officials alike spoke highly of Bacon’s most recent conservation efforts.

“We’ve done some remarkable things with conservation, but we’ve done it because of the partnerships, said Mike King, Executive Director of the Department of Natural Resources. “We’ve done it because we’ve had people like Mr. Bacon who are dedicated to making sure that Colorado fifty and one hundred years from now is a place that will be as special to us and our grandchildren and their kids as it is to the current generation, and that takes a vision; it takes a commitment. The partnership with a conservationist like Mr. Bacon…really does make things like this today possible.”

Steve Guertin, Deputy  Director U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, also spoke at the announcement.

“We’re here to applaud Louis Bacon for his leadership, his vision, and his dedication to conservation and this enormous gift that he’s given to the folks here in the region, in the state of Colorado, and nationwide,” he said. “We’re all in to work in the years and years and decades to come with this partnership as we all collectively move forward.”