History and Current Management
Most of the range is encompassed in the Diamond A Ranch (formerly the Gray Ranch), which is owned and managed by the Animas Foundation. The 300,000 acre (1,200 km²) ranch was bought in 1990 by The Nature Conservancy, which took the unusual step of selling it to the Animas Foundation, a private organization founded by rancher Drummond Hadley (as opposed to selling it to an arm of the U.S. government). The Foundation is intended to practice "sustainable agriculture in harmony with the environment." The Animas Foundation is one cooperating landowner within the Malpai Borderlands Group, a collaborative group in the region involving local landowners, local, state and federal agencies, universities, and environmental organizations. "The Animas Foundation is particularly important to the group in that they own more than a third of the planning area."
Access to the ranch, and hence to the Animas Mountains, is tightly controlled, with little or no public recreational use opportunities.
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