Nash Ranch Conservation Easement Project

Category: Conservation Easements
Organization: Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust
Date Approved: March 2016
Basin Funds: $10,000
State Funds: $90,000

This project helped fund the purchase of a conservation easement on the Nash Ranch, a 198-acre working ranch, which includes both banks of almost one mile of the north channel of the Rio Grande river on the “Rio Grande Island,” just east of the town of Del Norte in Rio Grande County.