Take Me Home, Country Roads singer John Denver bought 957 Colorado acres in 1979; Windstar later sold, but 927 wildlife-habitat acres stayed protected

John Denver bought a 957-acre property in Old Snowmass, Colorado, in 1979 and had a vision of it becoming the home of the Windstar Foundation, which was an environmental organization he had co-founded three years earlier. The property was sold after decades, but most of the land remained protected under a conservation easement that prevents development on 927 acres.

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