National Geographic article

[Dave]

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/hunters/poole-text.html

 

[big sky trapper]

For NG not a bad article, usually way to much to the anti everything crowd for me. Alot about montana here. Altho the comments about turner dont go over very well around here.

 

[Haggis]

Nice of Turner to make a profit off the same hunters whos guns he's actively trying to have banned. Any hunter that pays him for a hunt is a fool.

 

[RoundOut]

Nice of Turner to make a profit off the same hunters whos guns he's actively trying to have banned. Any hunter that pays him for a hunt is a fool.

That's not all the profit he makes off of Vermejo Park Ranch. I have stayed at Vermejo four times and it is usually $500 per person per day. They usually are near full at about 25-35 guests on the whole 600,000 acre ranch at any one time.

In the summer, depending on the snowmelt, it is some of the best trout fly-fishing anywhere. They also stock their lakes with trout, as some lakes suffer from winter-kill. Vermejo is a very special place, but not because of Turner, because of an oil and gas company called Pennzoil (now part of Devin, I think), that owned it for +/- 20 years before Turner did. Turner has placed Vermejo in a 400 year land trust to be operated as it is without much change.

For sure, his bison heard is the largest in North America, and I have seen a vega near the Vermejo (or is it Castilla) Reservoir covered in more than 1,000 elk one morning there, too. I am NOT a big fan of Ted Turner (wow that was an understatement - I can't stand his politics), but he sure has a nice ranch near Raton!