News and Press

Press Release: December 20, 2007
Great Outdoors Colorado invests $3 million in Gunnison Area Ranchland preservation.
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Press Release: June 1, 2007
Bob and Alice (Carpenter) Fulton have granted a conservation easement that will protect 279 acres of scenic grazing land on the eastern slope of Soap Mesa, overlooking Blue Mesa Reservoir.
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Press Release: November 13, 2006
Bob Robbins and his family have granted a conservation easement on 487 acres of grazing land and wildlife habitat in the Steuben Creek Valley, about eight miles west of Gunnison. The protected acreage is adjacent to another 500 acres that the Robbins family protected in 2005.
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Press Release: June 30, 2006
On June 13 the Peterson family protected another 430 acres of the Razor Creek Ranch about 20 miles east of Gunnison. The Petersons granted a conservation easement to Colorado Open Lands, a statewide land trust.
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Press Release: October 19, 2005
In the past month, two more Gunnison families chose to give up their rights to subdivide and develop their agricultural land. Bill and Connie Guerrieri’s family protected 115 irrigated acres north of Gunnison. Doyle and Mark Templeton protected 99 acres on Tomichi Creek.
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Creste Butte News: October 14, 2005
Obituary: GRCL Board Member James Franklin Gebhart On October 9, 2005 James Franklin Gebhart died unexpectedly at home.
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Creste Butte Weekly: July 14, 2005
In the early eighties, rancher Bill Trampe was asked to be the Marlboro Man. He put on his grubbiest clothes and got on his ugliest horse and went to the interview with the executives of this enormous cigarette company. If selected, Bill would have a source of income that would last him his entire life, could afford him a new home; he could retire.
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Press Release: March 31, 2005
Bob (Harold) Robbins and his son, Bob, have decided to give up forever their right to subdivide and develop 500 acres of grazing land and wildlife habitat in the Steuben Creek Valley, about 8 miles west of Gunnison. . . .
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Gunnison Country Times, June 17, 2004
Gunnison Ranchland Conservation Legacy recently completed two conservation easements which will preserve 738 acres of family ranchlands in the Tomichi Creek Valley. . . .
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