🏞️ San Luis Valley Conservation Area

The San Luis Valley Conservation Area, established in September 2018, a "landscape scale"National Conservation Area in south-central Colorado and far northern New Mexico which administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:The area, comprising the San Luis Valley and the upper basin of the Rio Grande, would become the fifth unit of the San Luis Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Potential land protection of up to 1,216,000 acres (492,000 ha) with conservation easements bought from willing sellers. Limited fee-title acquisition of up to 30,000 acres (12,000 ha) to meet management needs of the Alamosa, Baca, and Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuges. Planning for this conservation area was part of developing the comprehensive conservation plan for the refuges in the San Luis Valley.