A $25 million deal creates 2,000-acre Mount Tom Conservation Corridor 30 miles northwest of Denver.
A mountain summit in Jefferson County where millions of ladybugs breed with surrounding foothills that are home to elk moose, mountain lions, bears and other animals long has been off-limits as private property.
“Even if our population stopped growing, all you have to do is go skiing on a weekend, or go camping in the summer, and see all the vehicle traffic heading up into the mountains,” the Conservation Fund’s state director Justin Spring said. For wildlife including the ladybugs, conservation of habitat is essential – a primary purpose of the multi-agency deal that agency officials announced Tuesday.
The land previously belonged to the Baughman and the Cappello families who used it for cattle ranching. Back on April 8, 1952, an Air Force B-25 crashed into Mount Tom at a speed estimated at 200 miles per hour, government records show, leaving scattered wreckage. The property owners in recent years could have sold to developers, who had made overtures.
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