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Read the issue from spring 2024 about a statewide agrivoltaics survey.

Read the issue from February 2024 announcing our new office location in Alamosa.

Read the issue from December 2024 announcing the annual award winners!

Read the latest issue from November 2023 to learn about:

  • our acquisition of the 7,300 acre Williams Park Ranch in Routt County
  • how we earned $301 million in 2023
  • a 3,000-year-old petroglyph discovered on trust land

Read the issue from summer 2023 to learn about:

  • A large-scale solar installation in El Paso County
  • The Hunting and Fishing Public Access Program
  • Possessory Income Tax

Read our the April 2023 edition to learn about:

  • Seasonal grazing leasing
  • Fossil artifacts
  • Noxious weed management

Read the December 2022 edition, to learn about the 2022 lessee award winners.

Read the fall 2022 edition to learn about:

  • Farm to table dinners on trust land
  • Ground leases and affordable housing

Read the summer 2022 edition to learn about:

  • Forested trust land
  • Chubb Park Campgrounds on trust land
  • Selling deeded property when your land is adjacent to a trust land lease

Read the spring 2022 edition to learn about:

  • Jumping mouse habitat
  • State Forest State Park
  • Local schools winning BEST grants

NOTE: there was no winter 2021 issue.

Read the summer 2021 edition to learn about:

  • Nearly $300 million awarded in capital construction grants to Colorado schools
  • Mile High Youth Corps volunteers repair fences at Lowry Ranch
  • Trust land designated into the Colorado Natural Areas Program
  • Fire mitigation techniques

Read the spring 2021 edition to learn about:

  • Honey beehive installation at our downtown buildings
  • Two large properties available for agriculture and recreation leasing
  • Leave No Trace principles
  • Expansion of the Public Access Program

Read the January 2021 edition to learn about:

  • Construction begins on new affordable housing building
  • Pollinator path program
  • 2020 customer awards
  • and more!

Read the fall 2020 edition to learn about:

  • Our new map server
  • Public Access Program for sportsmen on trust land
  • Stewardship Action Plan for fens
  • Coal mine reclamation
  • our fiscal year 2020 annual report (we earned $131 million for school kids!)
  • and more!

Read the summer 2020 edition to learn about:

  • Renewable energy leases
  • Jim Creek restoration,
  • Stewardship Action Plan for lesser prairie chickens,
  • Lowry Ranch enhancement funds,
  • and more!

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