Denver Post: Billionaire ranch owner violated Colorado environmental laws during construction of controversial fence

[Sheltowee]

Potential fines of $65k per day. You love to see it: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/21/cielo-vista-ranch-fence-cdphe-san-luis-valley/?share=ifcleilpheewdppow1hs

Edited to add a non-paywalled link, I think.

 

[jimh406]

No, I don't love to see huge fines levied by govt agencies.

 

[belshawelk]

I actually dont like it. Were there more spotted owls?

 

[Mallardsx2]

Sounds to me like the typical "landowner had issues and law enforcement wouldn't fix his problems because its the good old boys club in the area" and so he put up a fence.

So I guess the Guberment will be ok when he puts cows in there because cattle ranchers seem to be untouchable and are not held to the same environmental standards at regular joe blow landowners from what I have seen......

For those of you who DON'T have a subscription.....

Billionaire ranch owner building 8-foot-tall fence ordered to “cease ”

The billionaire owner of a San Luis Valley ranch who is building an 8-foot high fence along his property line

wol.com

 

[TOGIE]

when it comes to cielo vista ranch and the iceberg of politics and disputes surrounding it, this fence thing is barely even the top few inches of that iceberg.

 

[Sheltowee]

I actually dont like it. Were there more spotted owls?

Dude built an unpermitted fence to (1) prevent legal access by neighbors and (2) redirect local wildlife near a wildlife refuge from water sources on his property. Typical rich-guy-thinks-he's-above-the-law horse hockey.

 

[elkduds]

Dude built an unpermitted fence to (1) prevent legal access by neighbors and (2) redirect local wildlife near a wildlife refuge from water sources on his property. Typical rich-guy-thinks-he's-above-the-law horse hockey.

Land grant laws supercede current regulations by over 2 centuries.