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Land Resources / News / Colorado
Routt Countys Land Conservation Crusade
Source: Steamboat Magazine, by Jennie Lay
September 19, 2011 
Vernon Summer’s modest home is perched just high enough to peer over the bustling fringe of Steamboat Springs and the Yampa River’s expansive south valley floor. It’s a vantage he’s enjoyed all his life. Born and raised at this jag in the railroad and the river, he knows the land intimately. One long, lazy afternoon over an iced tea, Summer looked out on his lush, 152-acre hay meadow, a part of his family’s ranch since 1889. He spilled forth a lifetime of stories about life and land in the valley – including daunting ski and rafting expeditions that took place long before anyone fathomed a resort. “Things were never the same after 1970,” Summer said. That was the year the gondola started running at the Steamboat Ski Area. The way land values went up, his neighbors “just couldn’t believe it was so.”
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