Some friends own a few acres in a canyon outside of Morgan. We were up there this weekend cleaning and refurbishing the small cabin for the hunt in October. I was talking to the owner bill for a while about where we could take the atvs. Quite a few years ago Bill made a deal with the major land owners surrounding his cabin to be able to hunt perpetually. The deal is that he and four others are allowed to hunt and take one deer.
The landowners act as a sort of collaborative entity for a huge geographical area. The latest ruling they passed down onto the land was to forbid any landowner from running sheep. This was serverely eveident when we started the cleanup. Sheep are partial to thistles and the large herds, under normal cirrcumstances, eat the thisles, keep the trails visible, the valleys clear espescially around the cabin itself.
The times they are a changin. There was a sign down the road that said some land near the cabin was for sale. It is rumored to be going for 36 million. Hopefully this is the last land to be developed after everything else. That might be a juvinille and optimictically nieve thought but the water table is so incredibly low that that might be the secret weapon.
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